Coastal News Today | AK -Stripers make long journey to Arkansas lakes
Striped bass on the Atlantic Coast may travel hundreds of miles from the ocean to freshwater bays to spawn. Thanks to the efforts of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists, some landlocked stripers in Beaver, Norfork and Ouachita lakes can claim a spawning run measuring thousands of miles. Hatchery staff transported a load of striped bass fingerlings in early July from Watha, N.C. on a 2,200-mile road trip that lasted nearly 72 hours from start to finish. Typically, striped bass stocked in Arkansas lakes come from brood stock caught in the three Arkansas lakes when the fish begin to mak...
Source: coastalnewstoday.com
