Down Cycle, or Dredging polution?

[freedom]

there's dif something happening to D bay, have also noticed the catches in our northern bays have went up, the raritan B seems tobe doing much better? why?

[Fat man in a little boat]

Not to step on anyone's toes(if a fatman steped on your toes you would know it) And again I'm not saying who is right or who is wrong, just some food for thought.
I know that the spring run for striped bass was way less then normal, my thoughts on this are that it was such a mild winter that the majority of the bass kept heading right up the coast. No effect here from dredging. If they didn't like the effects of the dredging then why was the fishing for them hottest the closer you got to the river and actually in the river?
Mother nature is a very well balanced system without mans involvement. But I do agree that dredging a river as great as the mighty Delaware River will effect something. All the things add up to how many and where the fish are, weather, water temp, moon phase, tide, currents, how many sharks, how many stripers, nuke plants, netters, rec fishermen, and earths axis effect on position of sun and how many hours it is out during the day. Its a very complex thing that only God knows what all the reasons and effects are.
I believe that the biggest factor with fish is temp. It effects there migratory routes more then any other factor. Other then temp. I see and have seen in my lifetime the other big factor being how many fish we all keep. The problem with this is NO ONE knows the correct number. But it really boils down to the less you keep the more there will be left to spawn and make more. Simple common sense, only problem with that is politics and money.

[fishanuk]

Gotta agree with F-man post above. I fished with Livetofish last fall striper season and it was a monster season for us. We fished near the channel the majority of the times. Could the weak fluke season so far be due to the weather over winter? The bay seems alive with every species but fluke.

I have seen many pods of dolphin, lots of turtles, rays and big pods of bunker so far. Now we have some catches of weakfish near the shoreline too.

[freedom]

fished the spring run a few years ago on a chater boat with a captn thats known for being hot on stripers,went from cape may way up the bay to fish and caugth very well the last few hours of the charter im sure he was under pressure to say the least to put fish on the boat,one thing he said was thewre diffently is last fish and too we fished were the bay narrowed condensing the fish like a funnle sora say. hey made scents,

also another captn well known worte on here about magretroy fish goning to where they were born to spwan and how they track thier roots, with the smell of the waters but he used much more scientifit words,

so the fish just passing the delaware i'm not so sure about that, however i think they don't spwan every year some are skipped for what reason not sure, that may have the awnser why it was passed up and or the stock is just down,we have to remenber there are highs and lows in almost everything out there.

can anyone confrun that the northern bays are doing better or is it the word of great catches getting out better?

[CaptG]

The channel dredging is in the river, not the bay.....you might want to look at the dredging that actual happens in the bay....for crab and conch...which I heard they let the comms fish all winter for this year. Can't be good to take out most of what little bit of substrate is in the bay...

[Captblock]

Here is a article about the affect of dredging in a habour. I live near the Delaware river and I have seen long dredging plumes in the river where they have been dredging.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/dredging-plumes-spread-35km-report-20120618-20jcw.html

[moored]

Here is the WQM report for the dredging up river last year:

http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/cenap-...ber%202011.pdf