striped bass
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striped bass (countable and uncountable, plural striped bass)
A popular fish among sport fisherman along Atlantic coast north of Virginia to Canada, Morone saxatilis.
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At the mouth of the Roanoke River, striped bass, some weighing over 100 pounds, provided an extraordinary resource at the beginning of the 20th century.
As juveniles, they fall victim to a wide variety of oceanic predators, including striped bass, larger bluefish, fluke (summer flounder), weakfish, tuna, sharks, rays, and dolphins.
Food habits of subadult striped bass in Lake Mead Arizona-Nevada.
Although striped bass may have been his first love, bluefin tuna became his greatest love.
In mid-winter, the storied Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby made the decision to remove striped bass from the 2020 competition, citing the decline in striped bass stock and conservation efforts to preserve the species.
Hybrids with other bass Striped bass have also been hybridized with white bass to produce hybrid striped bass also known as wiper, whiterock bass, sunshine bass, palmetto bass, and Cherokee bass.