Sustainable???
From past exchanges with CDFW staff, I believe they have all of the study info they need to conclude that Spearfishing for Stripers won't impact total population numbers. The main result will be that large Stripers will become scarce as they're long lived and take a long time to replace. But, as has been pointed out by others on this forum, there're plenty of small Stripers around, especially in the Delta.
in order to make spearfishing in rivers legal, the spearfishing organization approached CDFW/F&G Commission with their proposal. It was accepted without much fanfare or opposition. Maybe we'd have a better chance to change this by lobbying (as the spears did) CDFW to make spearfishing in the rivers illegal(??).
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