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Originally Posted by CowHunter
Art, out of all the bass put on my boat in a season I may only see 2 or 3 that have sores mentioned... Hate to say it but they are all caught in the NJ / NY Bight area... I fish the Chesapeke and have not caught any that show symptoms down there in the last few years...
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Key words in there: "that show symptoms". You can't always look at a person and know if they are sick or not, you can't just look at a bass to know if it has myco or not.
From a Virginia Institute of Marine Science FAQ about Mycobateriosis (my emphasis added):
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Mycobacteriosis of Chesapeake Bay striped bass is predominantly a visceral disease, infecting organs such as the spleen and kidneys. Internal signs of the disease typically include small grayish white nodules called granulomas in these organs. A small percentage of the infected fish also exhibit unsightly shallow, rough-surfaced, reddened, or darkly pigmented skin ulcers.
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We have all probably held tons of fish infected with myco and had no clue because only advanced infections have outward signs.
The VIMS FAQ also states a 76% infection rate of Chesapeake Bay bass as of 2001.
According to tagging done by ASMFC, a majority of the bass we see are from the Chesapeake Bay.
If anyone is interested,
http://www.maine.gov/dmr/recreationa...ts/mycoFAQ.pdf