RI Mass bass from the Chesapeake or Hudson

[MakoMike]

I've caught tagged bass from both locations in RI. Most local rivers do not support a spawn, because they are damned up too far downriver to allow the bass to get to the freshwater they need to spawn.

[FormerUser]

Got this off Canada's fisheries and ocean site:

There is historical evidence of striped bass spawning in five rivers of Eastern Canada: the St. Lawrence Estuary, the Miramichi River in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Saint John, Annapolis and Shubenacadie rivers, which all drain into the Bay of Fundy. Striped bass still spawn in the Miramichi (southern Gulf) and Shubenacadie (Bay of Fundy) rivers. The Bay of Fundy is also frequented by striped bass that breed in rivers in the United States.

Not that this has much to do with bass in RI but they do spawn all up and down the eastern seaboard.