Sewage spill Potamac River

[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.

[bulletbob]

its off everywhere on the east coast and has been for several years actually.. Fishermen will see the results in a few years.. an excerpt from a recent article I read-

Striped bass spawning has been in decline for several years, with reports indicating poor reproductive success in key areas like the Hudson River and Chesapeake Bay. This trend raises concerns about future populations and the overall health of the fishery, potentially leading to fewer catchable fish in the coming years.

[Broad Bill]

https://www.newser.com/story/383973/...ge-crisis.html

Not going to be a good ending. Kick Cooke Inc out of the bay and let the Menhaden do what they do best which is filter all the pollutants and toxins out of the water as a result of this spill. A spill that appears will have cataclysmic impacts on the Chesapeake and the striper spawn. Maryland and Virginia are literally killing this ecosystem for their own greed and at the expense of all the other Mid-Atlantic and Gulf of Maine states that depend on that resource. The fact it's allowed is unconscionable.

[Broad Bill]

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 spawning 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.

243 million gallons is being reported which means the number is probably significantly higher. Definitely going to be short and long-term consequences requiring substantial and remedial changes and how the Bay's ecosystem is being managed. But we all know that Virginia and Maryland don't really give a s*** so the chances of those changes actually occurring are probably in the neighborhood of zero to nil. It's unfathomable we can allow some of this country's most beautiful natural resources to be destroyed for greed and utter incompetency.

[Capt Sal]

imagine if that was Raritan Bay.Just more ammo to close the fishery down
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[bulletbob]

Read today that the DC mayor who is a Trump hater has asked president Trump for federal help with this spill which has been described as catastrophic, and from what I understand is still ongoing..She despises Trump and if she wants his help it must be really bad...

[Capt Sal]

Wes More is worse.Don't fix it till it breaks


The Bay was already in trouble

[Gerry Zagorski]

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.

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.