Hopefully, that will translate into more public appreciation of the city's fishery resources and implementation of conservation measures to ensure the striper's future. On the Bight Charters. Captain Jim Levinson, Double Haul Charters, Captain Tom Cornicelli Back Bay Charters, Captain David Blinkin North Flats Guiding, Captain Ernie French, To the Point Charters, Captain Bob Kelly Reel Therapy, Captain Don Lundt, Fish New York Charters, Captain Ralph Burtis Island Charters. Captain Tony Dilernia, Rocket Charters, Captain Bob Cali, Sporty III, Captain John Maliza , Captain Tom Matteo, TJ's, Captain Dennis O'Rorke, Captain Angelo Pignataro, Radial Sportfishing Charters, Captain Tony Acabasio, Maja, Captain Joe Mustari, and Steve Sloan. In a year when various groups are trying to reopen a commercial bass fishery on the Hudson, this year's Macallan CCA Manhattan Cup Tournament will made a particularly important statement.
Striped bass are an important resource, worth more alive than dead.
Fishermen are willing to pay much more to catch and release striped bass than gill-netters are paid to kill them. The Macallan CCA Manhattan Cup Tournament is hopefully casting a new tradition, a tradition of sustainable, low-impact use of the striped bass resource that can be a new heritage, handed down from us to untold generations yet to be born.