Proper now, Maryland’s striped bass are experiencing a spawning failure. On October 12, 2023, the Maryland Division of Pure Assets introduced that Maryland’s 2023 juvenile abundance index was 1.02, “effectively beneath the long-term common of 11.1.” In reality, the 2023 juvenile abundance index was the second-lowest ever recorded in a time sequence courting again to 1957; solely an index of 0.89, recorded in 2012, was decrease.
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