On The Water’s Striper Cup Eliminates Weigh-Ins
On The Water’s Striper Cup is a season-long striped bass tournament that saw over 4,000 entries in 2018. While the organizers have worked hard the …
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Striped Bass Anglers Need To Do The Right Thing
After sharp declines of striped bass populations in the ’70s and 80’s strong conservation measures led to a robust recovery. Unfortunately, stocks are again on the decline …
NY State Legislature OKs bill banning large-scale menhaden seining
While the bulk of the industrial harvest of menhaden occurs further south, hats off to New York for protecting these important forage fish. The New …
New Study Finds Striped Bass Population In Trouble
Striped bass are being overfished according to a new assessment of the stock’s health — a finding that will likely trigger catch reductions for a …
Can Chesapeake Stripers Catch a Break?
Chesapeake Bay is the single most important place in the world for Atlantic striped bass. That being the case, one might suppose that fishery managers …
Anglers are hoping Virginia puts a stop to “roping” fish
Anglers hoping to catch the striped bass of a lifetime, or enhance their chances of winning a tournament, increasingly have been using a technique where …
Study shows striper biomolecules could be great for human ills
Scientists at the College of William & Mary say striped bass peptides, bound with copper, could be amazingly effective not only at boosting the human …
‘Long lost’ population of St. John River striped bass may have been discovered
For more than four decades it was believed native striped bass in the St. John River had been lost forever. The population crashed over a …
Striped bass invasion in Labrador appears to be over
An invasion of striped bass in southern Labrador that some said were threatening Atlantic salmon populations appears to have been short-lived. Thousands of the fish were …
NMFS issues report on N.C. bass poaching ring
Fortunately, these criminals are off the water. In early November, NMFS released its final report on a striped bass poaching ring in North Carolina that’s taken the better …