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Originally Posted by SkunkBoat
We didn't keep one striper last year. I don't think we ever kept more than 3 on the boat in a day for 20 years. So it won't impact me a bit except maybe there will be more big ones to release in coming years.
Destroyer...I caught one whiting last year!
Used to fish the Casino pier in the 70's-80's I know what you are talking about.
And night party boats along the beach. That is gone.
BUT, I never caught one striper in the 70's and 80s'. Now I can catch a dozen throwbacks a night on my dock.
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Yep. Almost the same here. In 1979 I caught a 20lb Striper drifting a bloodworm at slack tide in the Point Pleasant canal. Other than that, nothing in the 70's and 80's. I remember only too well the forecasts of doom and extinction for the Striper fishery back then. Now, like you, I can easily catch a dozen shorts in the Hackensack River in a night.
As to the Whiting fishery, it is my fervent prayer that they and the Mackerel and Bluefish make a comeback.... but it's my opinion that as long as commercial net and long line fishing is allowed the draggers will continue to deplete all the fish off our coasts..... to the point of extinction. 
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