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Originally Posted by Capt Sal
Well if the biomass and spawn was way off in the Potomac now it is a disaster. They say millions of gallons of sewage have spilled into the river. March and April are prime months for spawing there .I do not know where it turns into fresh water but someone on this site does i am sure.I hope it doesn't ruin there spawning season and kill a bunch of stripers.
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Got this info from AI
Stripers spawn in areas where the salt water mixes with fresh. The Potomac River begins mixing fresh water with brackish (salt) water from the Chesapeake Bay primarily in the middle Potomac Estuary, specifically between Quantico, Virginia, and the Route 301 bridge at Morgantown, Maryland.
Unfortunately, the Potomac is one of the 4 major rivers they spawn in.. The Choptank, Nanticoke, and Susquehanna rivers are the others and combined they are contributing to roughly 70-90% of the Atlantic coast population.
Apparently they were stocked back in 1985 and the stocking continued for several years to aid their recovery.
Hopefully who ever created this spill and the general decline before it, will be responsible for funding the stocking again.
