This Doctor from URI spoke on Narragnsett Bay and on Stripers. His research and the studies of his colleages was enlightening.
It seems that the YOY Bass index is directly corrolated to the amount of rain Pennsylvania gets. I am not kidding. It all has to do with the amount of run off that enters the Chesapeake. The more fresh water, the more food there is for the small fry.
Also had some interesting insight to the menhaden population fluxuations. It seems that there is this weather anomoly called the NAO. the North Atlantic Oscillation and it directly affects the Menhaden population. It's too long to explain here but it was really interesting and, for the first time, I could really understand the relationship between weather and fish populations.
The following site can explain it in much more detail.
Welcome to the North Atlantic Oscillation www-page
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