While some anglers are experiencing the best big striped bass fishing of their lives the science tells a more complicated story. In this episode, Ben Gahagan and Micah Dean of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries talk about the state of the striped bass population, what stripers need to spawn successfully, and the results of a new study on catch-and-release fishing for striped bass.

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