Interesting study done on West Coast stripers shows toxin accumulated by the adult fish actually cause increased mortality in bass larvae.

News Blog: Troubled waters: striped bass moms pass on harmful pollutants to babies (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=troubled-waters-striped-bass-moms-p-2008-11-24)

One more reason we should blame the people living around the Chesapeake.

Gotta die from something...might as well be from eating delicious striped bass!!! We have been polluting the earth for so long and continue to do so....eventually we will poison everything and we will have no choice but to eat the poisoned fish and fruits and vegetables, and from the water......this is what mankind will pass on from!!! Poisoning ourselves!!!:skulz::skulz::skulz:

Surprised to see DDT still being detected. This was banned almost 40 years ago. Everyone should (re)read R Carson's Silent Spring.

Bob Pond had been talkin about this for years

the biggest additive I've seen to the Cheaspake is biological, runoff from chicken waste, not controlled, wheat etc.. grown to support the feedlot be it pigs or chickens. the amount of uncontrolled bio material almost quadruples what ends up in the bay. Scary Scary

banned in the USA yes...but not in south America so it got sold down there for awhile

Striper version of Crack Babies

Stripers are loaded with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and women of child bearing age and young children should not be eating striped bass and everbody else should not eat more then four meals a year.

She accumulates the toxins and then passes them to her eggs, many of which die or lead to young that don't live long enough to spawn.

Yet another reason to do everything possible to get as many bass back to the spawning grounds each spring.

Make it a gamefish. Reduce the recreational kill. Torpedo Omega protein. Clean up the Chesapeake watershed. Respectively.