Mesh-Specific Catch Compositions And Size Distributions Occurring In Virginia's 2005 Winter-Spring Striped Bass Gill Net Fishery

Data presented in this report was collected during a Fisheries Resource Grant Project entitled "The Assessment of Sturgeon Bycatch, Bycatch Mortality and Other Regulatory Discard Mortality in Virginia's Winter/Spring Striped Bass and Other Gill Net Fisheries." Both fishery dependent and independent data were collected during an extensive joint effort between fishermen, researchers, and scientists. This report contains only a fraction of the data collected. This portion is presented at this time at the request of VMRC to aid the Commission in constructing new gill net regulations that will concurrently reduce the average size of striped bass harvested and minimize regulatory bycatch.