The Maryland Department of Natural Resources says the state’s striped bass population is showing only slight improvement, with reproduction levels still well below average.
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For another consecutive year, striped bass, or rockfish, in the Chesapeake Bay are showing poor reproduction rates according to studies in Maryland and Virginia.
Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has released the results of this year’s winter dredge survey aimed at monitoring blue crab populations in the Chesapeake Bay.