Interesting, but some odd stats. Can't seem to get the graphs to copy, but Fig. 5 Relative Abundance does not seem to at all correlate with Fig.6 Commercial Landings. The crash in 96 was sharp and does not match up to landing either so there has to be some other factors involved.
I'm still leaning towards the larger year classes of the early 90s and a predation scenario way out of balance.
The more I think about it - we are both probably right
If you look at the landings, by the mid 70's the big crash had started. But it is also clear that once the stocks were already much lower, the abundant Striped Bass were just hammering the population too. Perhaps that is what took the stock from in trouble to situation critical.
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