Striped bass are often called stripers, linesider or rockfish. They are silvery, shading to olive-green on the back and white on the belly, with seven or eight uninterrupted horizontal stripes on each side of the body. They can live in both freshwater and saltwater environments. Spawning begins in the spring and running water is necessary to keep eggs in motion until hatching. Striped bass don’t have eyelids so when the sun comes up, they will retreat to deeper water to avoid the bright light. A female striped bass can lay up to 3,000,000 eggs and the female will grow larger than the males.

SIZE: Adult striped bass can range from 16 to 30 in. (40.6 cm to 76.2 cm). The maximum reported length is 6 ft. 6 in. (200 cm) with the common length being 3 ft. 11 in. (120 cm)The largest specimen ever captured weighed 125 lbs. (56.8 kg)

RANGE: Striped bass range in the Western Atlantic from the St. Lawrence River in Canada to the St. John River in northern Florida and the northern Gulf of Mexico. Striped bass habitat extends from the fresh and brackish tributaries of western Florida and into Louisiana. The population of striped bass which is indigenous to the Gulf of Mexico is a genetically distinct population from Atlantic coast striped bass populations.

HABITAT: Striped bass, as their name indicates, are indigenous both to the Atlantic coast and to the Gulf of Mexico.

DIET: Striped bass are opportunistic predators feed on plankton, insects, crustaceans, and small fish throughout their various stages of development. Striped bass larvae feed on zooplankton,

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