The dietary studies I'm familiar with have all collected the data necessary to identify the fish eaten by striped bass of a particular size, but only most of the studies have also documented the size of prey. Due to rapid digestion of prey, it's actually quite tough (read, expensive) to get accurate lengths of prey items.
It was indeed.
W/regard to the proposed possession limits and the safe-eating guidelines, there are many different ways to think about our proposal. Here are a few:
(1) Due to striped bass demographics, the proposal would have the effect of allowing people to limit on small fish rather than large fish and --- because small fish have somewhat lower Mercury concentrations and relatively small mass --- those small-fish limits are safer than large-fish limits;
(2) the present bag and possession limits allow people to eat ~730 striped bass per year, yet you don't hear about people doing that;
(3) white sturgeon and striped bass have similar Mercury concentrations, even though a white sturgeon limit likely has much more Mercury (due to fish size) than the proposed striped bass limit.
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