Capt. John McMurray of One More Cast Charters, NY testified Wednesday before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Ocean and Wildlife.
Anglers advocate in Washington, DC this week: Capt. Dave Monti, No Fluke Charters; Todd Corayer, South Kingstown writer and kayak fishermen; Peter Jenkins, owner of the Saltwater Edge, Middletown; Capt. Ian Devlin, East Norfolk, CT.
Striped bass in tough shape, fish mangers take action
The Striped Bass Board of the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) announced Tuesday that they
plan to reduce striped bass total removals (commercial and recreational
harvest, including dead releases) by roughly 17 percent.
The 2018 Atlantic Striped Bass Benchmark Stock Assessment
indicates the resource is overfished and experiencing overfishing relative to
the updated reference points defined in the assessment. Female spawning stock
biomass (SSB) was estimated at 151 million pounds, below the SSB threshold of
202 million pounds. Despite recent declines in SSB, the assessment indicated
the stock is still significantly above the SSB levels observed during the
moratorium in the mid-1980s
The Draft Addendum that aims to reduce harvest will explore
a range of management options, including minimum size and slot size limits for
the recreational fishery in the Chesapeake Bay and along the coast, as well as
a coastwide circle hook requirement when fishing with bait.
The Draft Addendum will be presented to the Board for its
consideration and approval for public comment in August. If approved, it will
be released for public comment, with the Board considering its final approval
in October for implementation in 2020.
A more detailed description of the stock
assessment results is available on the Commission’s website at http://www.asmfc.org .
Anglers advocate for
conservation, enhanced data and climate change tools
Anglers, guides, charter captains and fishing industry
leaders met in Washington, DC this week to push to maintain strong conservation
measures in our national fishing law, the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA). Provisions such as Allowable Catch Limits
(ACLs) and Accountability Measures (fish sectors making up the difference if
they overfish) are MSA provisions that have helped rebuild over 40 fish stocks
since the year 2000.
The group of anglers visited the offices of senators
and congressmen advocating for enhance data (possibly through electronic recording)
and providing fish mangers with enhanced climate change tools to manage species
that have migrated as water has warmed.
Peter Jenkins, owner of the Saltwater Edge outfitters
in Middletown, RI and board chairman of the American Saltwater Guides Association
said, “Our aim to run sustainable businesses through conservation and keeping
the conservation measures in our national fishing law strong.”
In other Washington, DC fishing news this week, Capt.
John McMurray of One More Cast Charters in Oceanside, NY and president of the
American Saltwater Guides Association testified before the House Natural
Resource Subcommittee on Water, Ocean and Wildlife Wednesday. McMurray said, “Conservation provisions contained
in the current version of our national fishing law reduced the number of stocks
being overfished from 92 to 38 since 2000.
According to NOAA Fisheries recreational participation and seafood
landings are up as a result and that’s because conservation provisions increased
access by making more fish available to more people.”
Spring
fishing off to a great start
The spring fishing season has gotten
off to a great start. Anglers had a
great opening to the freshwater season with trout and golden trout still being
caught in stocked waterways (see below report).
And this week, the saltwater fishing
season exploded with some anglers catching as many as 30 migrating school bass
an outing with reports of a 30” fish being caught too (28” is the minimum size,
one fish/person/day}. To enhance the
safe release of small school bass use in-line hooks, or snap off the barbs on
treble hooks, and gently bring these fish in for a safe release.
The tautog bite has been good too this
week with many anglers limiting out (three fish/person/day, 16” minimum), some
fish being caught are in the 20 plus inch range.
So get out there and fish.
Where’s the bite?
Striped bass. The striped
bass migration started to hit Rhode Island early last week with school bass at
the West Wall. Mike Wade of Watch Hill
Outfitters, Westerly, said, “We have customers catching holdover bass far up
the Pawcatuck River at the Westerly/Pawcatuck Bridge and others at the West
Wall of the Harbor of Refuge in South Kingstown catching migrating bass. The fish are loaded with sea lice.” Neil Hayes of Quaker Lane Bait & Tackle,
North Kingstown said, “Anglers are catching migrating striped bass all the way
to Conimicut Point and beyond up the river.
We have good reports of a striped bass bite in Apponaug and East
Greenwich Coves.” Manny Macedo of Lucky Bait & Tackle, Warren said, “One of
our customers caught a 30” keeper in the Barrington River and two others caught
over 30 school bass. They said they
successfully released all of them.”
Tautog. “Tautog fishing for
commercial fishermen has been getting better.
Some are catching five to six keepers using clam as bait, not a lot of
green crabs around year. They are
setting traps but the water is still too cold around here and the crabs are
still dormant.” Manny Macedo of Lucky Bait & Tackle said, “Tautog fishing
is very good. Anglers are limiting out
(three fish/person/day) using green crabs.
The bite is on in Tiverton, in the Sakonnet River and at the Barrington
River Bridge.” Neil Hayes of Quaker Lane Bait & Tackle, said, “The tautog
bite off Newport and Jamestown was very good this week. Anglers are using both worms and green crabs
for bait.” Angler John Migliori has been
catching keeper tautog along Ocean Drive, Newport. This past weekend he caught a 22” fish from
shore.
Freshwater fishing. Manny Macedo of Lucky Bait said, “The bite at
Bad Luck Pond for trout has been very good, however fishing at Brickyard Pond,
Barrington has not been good at all. The
largemouth bite continues to be good in the area.” Neil Hayes of Quaker Lane
Bait & Tackle said, “Customers are still catching golden trout. We weighed in two that were caught at Silver
Spring Lake, North Kingstown. So the trout bite is still good. The largemouth bass bite has been good for
anglers too.” Mike Wake of Watch Hill
Outfitters said, “The trout bite is still great at ponds that DEM stocked such
as Carolina and Bradford Ponds. And, they
are still catching golden trout. Once
again DEM has done a great job stocking.”
Visit www.mass.gov/orgs/division-of-fisheries-and-wildlife
for a list of stocked trout ponds and regulations in Massachusetts. And, for stocked ponds and regulations in
Rhode Island visit www.dem.ri.gov .
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