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Actually that fishery in the St. Johns is nothing new - I've seen pics of 20 lb. fish taken through the ICE on the upper part of that river. There is definitely a spawning population there and in a couple other rivers along the Bay of Fundy - also (and this is amazing) an entirely separate population, though not what it was decades ago, in some of the rivers that flow into the mouth of the St. Lawrence in upper New Brunswick. There was a time when the salmon fishermen in the famous rivers of that area were very concerned that the stripers were eating too many baby Atlantic salmon in the lower parts of the rivers. I think OTW did a story with some cool pics of fishing in St. Johns and other rivers north of Maine a few years ago, written by a local up there.
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