The Striped Bass is a powerful silvery fish marked by seven or eight dark horizontal stripes. Anadromous, it runs from the sea into coastal rivers to spawn and is a premier gamefish.
Habitat
Coastal Atlantic waters and the rivers where it spawns
Diet
Fish, crabs, squid, and worms
How common
Uncommon
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