Hey Philk999

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Here's the answer to your question on the other board (C&P) that no one seems to be able to answer. All the know it all boys either haven't been fishing long enough or haven't lived in the state long enough to even be familiar with how the ASMFC manages.

Striped Bass is managed by Amendment 6 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass.

The Goal of Amendment 6 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass is:
“To perpetuate, through cooperative interstate fishery management, migratory stocks of striped bass; to allow commercial and recreational fisheries consistent with the long-term maintenance of a broad age structure, a self-sustaining spawning stock; and also to provide for the restoration and maintenance of their essential habitat.”
In support of this goal, the following objectives are recommended for Amendment 6:
• Manage striped bass fisheries under a control rule designed to maintain stock size at or above the target female spawning stock biomass level and a level of fishing mortality at or below the target exploitation rate.
• Manage fishing mortality to maintain an age structure that provides adequate spawning potential to sustain long-term abundance of striped bass populations.
• Provide a management plan that strives, to the extent practical, to maintain coastwide consistency of implemented measures, while allowing the States defined flexibility to implement alternative strategies that accomplish the objectives of the FMP.
• Foster quality and economically viable recreational, for-hire, and commercial fisheries.

Fishing Mortality Target & Threshold (2.5.1)
The striped bass fishing mortality threshold under Amendment 6 is the fishing mortality rate that allows for maximum sustainable yield (Fmsy), currently estimated to be 0.41. Amendment 6 also establishes a fishing mortality target of F=0.30, which equates to an exploitation rate of 24%. This target (F=0.30) provides a higher long–term yield from the fishery and adequate protection to ensure that the striped bass population is not reduced to a level where the spawning potential is adversely affected.
There are two areas where the fishing mortality target is lower than the rest of the East Coast, the Chesapeake Bay and the Albemarle Sound/Roanoke River. To compensate for the smaller minimum size limit granted to both of these areas, the target fishing mortality is set a F=0.27.

For more info see Amendment 6, located on the ASMFC website