Catch and Release of Striped Bass

We have been doing angler workshops up and down the coast for the last few months.  We visited Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey to speak with anglers about their experiences.  A big part of these meetings is the feedback from the several hundred participants.  A few different topics rose to the surface in each location.  One of those topics was catch and release mortality of striped bass.

We have to assume that this is in response to the latest graph on catch and release mortality and the newfound hyper focus on the issue.  Let’s take a look at this information and possible motivation for the interest before we get into the science of catch and release.

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