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Are striped bass doomed? Some conservationists are worried. Proposed moratorium on harvest of stripers from Maine to North Carolina gets mixed reviews on Atlantic waters. By Jason NarkSpecial To The Washington Post Read Article The Dawn Marie is rising and falling in the gray swells, one of a hundred boats crowded together in search of striped bass sometimes called America’s fish on the Chesapeake Bay. Captain John Motovidlak, 72, has six fishing customers aboard the vessel, which departed from a dock on Kent Island in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. They paid $110 apiece to charter the boat, and they expect to catch and keep a cooler full of striped bass by day’s end.

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