Stripers Forever Protest Chesapeake 14% Quota Increase

The letter below was sent by Stripers Forever to Officials in MD and VA in protest of the planned 14% quota increase in Chesapeake Bay that is designed to target the 2011 year class – the only really successful one in the last 10 years.  More information is available in the previous two posts. To: […]

Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass kill to Increase 14% in 2014

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently announced that the Chesapeake Bay harvest quota would increase by 14% in 2014.  The text of the release and information on the splits between jurisdictions and recreational/commercial allocations can be found below.  The reason is simply that the 2011 year class had a high young of the year […]

Striped Bass Stock Status

At its annual meeting on October 29, 2013, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) adopted a new stock assessment. In a nutshell, the assessment shows that while the spawning stock biomass is not yet critically low (as of the end of 2012), we have reached the overfished threshold and are well below the target level set […]