BOSTON — When celebrity chef Jasper White, owner of the popular Summer Shack restaurants, stepped up to the microphone, state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, D-Gloucester, could hardly contain herself.
"I love your restaurant," she gushed, as though White were a rock star. White, testifying Tuesday before the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on a suite of 11 bills seeking to end commercial fishing of striped bass, thanked her, then extolled the virtues of another star of the culinary world.
"Striped bass is a superstar fish," White said.
Whether it's the recreational fishermen casting a line from shore looking for a thrill or maybe a meal, the commercial fishermen who depend on bass as a reliable source of income, or the charter fishermen who parlay the appeal of catching these big fish into boatloads of fishing tourists and significant money, all parties agreed that striped bass is a valuable resource.
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