

Outdoors: Managing striped bass a balancing act

10:46 PM, May 22, 2013
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Overseeing a resource like striped bass is a big challenge for fishery managers. A striper caught by a surf caster on Cape Cod may have been cruising Chesapeake Bay just weeks earlier. So it doesn't help that the fishery is spread across multiple estuaries and watersheds stretched the length of the East Coast. Making things just that much more complicated is the fact that it seems like striped bass populations rise and fall with the tide.

Because they are an extremely popular game fish, it creates a real balancing act for biologists as they try to manage the resource to satisfy the needs and ...