Spring Schoolies Part I: The Migration
Our striper population consists mainly from The Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River, and Hudson River ecosystems,
The striper migration has always fascinated me. Millions of fish from various and separate initial ecosystems coordinate themselves to swim up the coast to their preferred summer habitats without the luxury of Google Maps. How do they know where to go? What trigger's their migration? The stripers don't log into Facebook or check Yelp reviews to decide if Cape Cod Bay, Boston Harbor, or the Merrimack River is this year's hot spot. The annual journey ranging mostly from Maryland or New York to Canada is made possible through millions of years of biological evolution and natural events that trigger a cycle of patterns every season, year after year.
The majority of striped bass that we catch north of Boston comes from two separate main breeding grounds: the Chesapeake Bay and the Hudson River. In the past decade, more and more evidence has suggested that we may have more fish from the Hudson River ecosystem than previously thought. A few years ago, I had the pleasure to be in attendance for a seminar by
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