The Maryland Department of Natural Resources says the state’s striped bass population is showing only slight improvement, ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources released results from its 2025 juvenile striped bass survey on October 15, ...

Striped bass survey 2025 reveals a slight uptick, yet numbers remain below average, influencing fisheries management ...

While mycobacteriosis studies on Bay stripers won?t be complete for a few years, there is no reason to stop fishing, hang up your rod, cancel a charter or not eat fish. Releases by the Maryland ...

A coalition of Maryland fishing associations and charter boat operators have escalated their legal battle against new striped bass fishing restrictions, filing an emergency petition with the U.S.

SUMMARY: The Maryland DNR's 2025 survey confirms Atlantic menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay are "widespread for the third ...

TILGHMAN ISLAND, MD - On the opening day of striped bass fishing in Maryland, recreational anglers and charter boats ventured out onto the Chesapeake Bay, but not all were enthusiastic about the start ...

Back in the late 1970s striped bass numbers were decimated in the Bay by overfishing, degradation of their habitat and warming waters. Fisheries managers cut harvests and the fish recovered.But, it’s ...

Slumping spawning numbers for the prized striped bass, or rockfish, along the Atlantic coast have led to Maryland presenting emergency regulations to bolster their population. A decision on Wednesday ...

A rockfish is caught on a fishing trip in Chesapeake Bay. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)(The Washington Post via Getty Im/The Washington Post) Citing concerns about the ...