Big deal for stripers...
It's the next best thing to live blogging: Candus Thomson is at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meeting and brings us this big news:
Maryland fisheries officials are hoping today to end more than a decade of regional control over the spring striped bass season, the state's most popular.
Fisheries Director Howard King will ask the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to remove the annual striped bass quota and allow the state to fish under regulations similar to ones used by other Eastern Seaboard states.
Under King's plan, anglers would be allowed to keep one fish daily, minimum length of 28 inches, during the April 19 to May 13 spring season. Previous spring seasons have operated under a cap and a minimum length in excess of 30 inches.
The cap hasn't worked well-Maryland anglers are always reaching or exceeding it. Read the whole article here.
They are supposed to vote on the plan this afternoon. So stay tuned to baltimoresun.com for the results.
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.
