The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a peer-reviewed assessment of Striped Bass in early 2019. They concluded the entire striped bass population from Maine to the Outer Banks is overfished, and overfishing is accelerating the decline. (When a fish species is overfished, there are less fish in the water than that population needs to replace itself. And when overfishing occurs, we are taking too many fish, too fast.) The NOAA report is 700+ pages