July Slab of the Month Entry: Gurgling Striper
Jeremy Cameron at Flies and Fins throws his name into the hat of what's becoming another freakish month. Is it possible to continue at this fish pornocopia pace?
Jeremy Cameron at Flies and Fins throws his name into the hat of what's becoming another freakish month. Is it possible to continue at this fish pornocopia pace?
Dave Hadden who works for Freedom Hawk kayaks kicks off July with a Cape caught 39"/ 27 pound slab.
This investigation started in 2003.
State and federal investigators have broken up a black market involving watermen and fish dealers who sold millions of dollars' worth of striped bass, illegally taken from the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River, to shops and restaurants across the country, according to court documents filed in federal court this week.
Annually, Maryland's 1,231 licensed watermen account for about 2
million pounds of the 7 million pounds of striped bass legally caught
commercially on the Eastern Seaboard. The poaching scheme described in
court documents and by sources means that the state vastly exceeded its
annual striped bass quota for five years.
LINK (Via:The Baltimore Sun)