Striped bass will still be an option for restaurant patrons in Massachusetts since lawmakers put off legislation that would have banned commercial striped bass fishing and sales in the Bay State.
The Joint Committee on Environment Natural Resources and Agriculture announced Tuesday that the proposed ban would be sent for study, eliminating further consideration this year.
State Sen. Dan Wolf, D-Harwich, a committee member, said the striped bass population should be monitored, but a ban on commercial fishing is the wrong method.
"To eliminate a whole class of commercial fisher-people from the mix is not the way to do it," Wolf said in a telephone interview. A better option would be an overall management plan that sets quotas and monitors the species closely, he said.
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