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 ...

It is always fun for anglers to strike out on a new fishing adventure. Venturing to an unexplored body of water or looking ...

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.

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 ...

I wouldn't say I am a luddite, but I'm certainly not a gear head. That positions me in the middle somewhere like most folks.

EASTON, MD - New emergency regulations governing recreational striped bass/ rockfish fishing, implemented two weeks ago by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), may become a ...

Back in the late 1970s striped bass numbers were decimated in the Bay by overfishing, degradation of their habitat and ...

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 ...

Maryland’s state fish is again imperiled. In the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, invasive predators, warming waters and overfishing have threatened the immensely popular striped bass, known locally as ...