He should know: Myerson has a few 60 and 70-pound stripers also on his resume.

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The stripers had been overharvested for decades and were nearing a total population collapse.

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It might not stay this way, as the stripers are still threatened by the vicissitudes of man.

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We started catching fish right away, all stripers, none of them particularly big.

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To the west was the mouth of a fertile river (the Hudson) packed with oysters, more stripers, sturgeon, shad, porgies and bluefish.

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There is no commercial fishery for stripers in New York City waters.

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When Pasternack reappears, Powers asks him again if he has any stripers.

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He chased stripers in Montauk, New York, and in the Boston Harbor.

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The latest is the overharvesting of menhaden, a small bony fish that's used in chicken feed and also happens to be the stripers' main meal.

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Stripers there happen to be chock full of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which at worst, cause cancer in humans and at best wreck immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems.

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But the incident stirred a fierce debate here about yo-yoing, a technically challenging but potent technique that involves stuffing a bait fish with lead weight so it will sink to the ocean's bottom where big stripers lie.

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