Female Stripers Pass Toxins to their Eggs-Young

[Fly Rod]

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.

[WoodyCT]

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.