Photo--Talking Flies with Lefty Kreh, Casco Bay Maine, 2010Atlantic Coast Striped Bass Population Remains Healthy
Annapolis, Md. (October 18, 2010) — The Maryland Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) today announced that the 2010 Young of the Year Striped Bass
Survey is 5.6, below the long-term average of 11.6. While this is the third consecutive
year of below average striped bass production in Maryland’s portion of the
Chesapeake Bay, the population remains above the management action trigger set by
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC). Likewise, the number of
adults in the Atlantic coast population and levels of fishing are well within healthy
limits as set by the ASMFC management framework.
DNR biologists point out that variation in annual spawning success is normal because
striped bass reproduction is influenced by many factors including water temperature,
winter snowfall, spring flow rates, and prevailing weather conditions.
”We are carefully monitoring the juvenile striped bass situation,” said Thomas
O’Connell, Director of DNR’s Fisheries Service. “As stewards of the primary nursery
area for Atlantic striped bass, it is our responsibility to protect this essential habitat
and work with our state and federal partners along the Atlantic coast to ensure that
spawning striped bass are adequately protected, and ASMFC management
benchmarks continue to be achieved.”
Looks like I will keep fishing the style I do, finding hard to feed fish on the flats, those bird chasers will have one hell of a gas bill over the next few years until we get a good spawn and some little fish back in to the system!!!
2 comments:
I'm not much of a bird chaser or sight fisherman either for that matter and would rather search for fish along structure with big flies. The fish just haven't seemed to be there in any great numbers though the last few years. I kept going back to the same flats time and time again to find fish because that's just where they were at.
Yep the last 4 years the guys who have there flats wired are still having a good time, we had are real good summer up here best in 4 years hands down!!!I like the fishing we have right now some what tecnical that my style, but I worry about 3-5 years from now people will give up becouse the fish are going to be hard to feed flies too- if we don't get some little guys into the system soon, only way will get those is if we quit killing the breeders NOW!!!!
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