Good news on sturgeon more than offset by concerns over striped bass in Chesapeake Bay
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Washington Post] By Darryl Fears - September 29, 2014 -
A modest haul of sturgeon was a positive end to a summer of good, bad and ugly developments in the Chesapeake Bay.
Any landing of sturgeon, which haven't been caught by fishermen in the watershed since the early 1970s, is a good thing.
But a troubling drop in the abundance of spawning female striped bass, Maryland's state fish, is bad.
And for ugly, there's the recent discovery in Virginia of a killer plant that was thought to have been eradicated from the Potomac River and the presence of one of the bay's worst fish-killing "dead zones" on record...
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