Bush moves to protect striped bass, red drum

Seafood Currents
Oct 22, 2007
SFB Staff — President Bush on Saturday signed an executive order to protect striped bass and red drum from overfishing during a stop at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md.

The order encourages states to declare striped bass, known locally as rockfish, and red drum “game fish,” making both species off-limits to commercial fishermen.

After signing the order, Bush fished for striped bass off Tilghman Island for an hour before eating Maryland crab cakes for lunch at Vice President Dick Cheney’s St. Michaels vacation home.

But states will be reluctant to give up their right to regulate fishing in their waters, Dennis Abbott, a New Hampshire legislator and member of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which monitors the striped bass fishery, told the Baltimore Sun.

“If commercial fishing shuts down,” he said, “how would the general public have a chance to have a striped-bass dinner?”

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florida said…
is that an american fish

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