Stripers are taking over a world famous Atlantic salmon river, camp owners say

[jpak]

https://bangordailynews.com/2018/07/24/outdoors/fishing/stripers-are-taking-over-a-world-famous-atlantic-salmon-river-camp-owners-say/

Atlantic salmon camp owners on New Brunswick’s Miramichi River are pleading for the Canadian government’s help as an unprecedented number of striped bass are eating young salmon in the river.

The Miramichi Salmon Association has asked the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard for immediate action that it says would save salmon from predatory stripers, according to the Atlantic Salmon Federation.

“We need to get the ecosystem in balance,” MSA president Mark Hambrook said. “Predatory bass have exploded from 50,000 fish 10 years ago to over 1 million today. At the same time, Atlantic salmon populations are in crisis and at historic lows.”

A study 12 years ago showed that 70 percent of young salmon, or smolts, were successfully reaching the sea on their outward migration, Hambrook said. Today, less than 25 percent of salmon smolts are able to reach the sea, he said.

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[padah513]

1. Interesting

Curious to see what proposal they come up with to stop or at least slow the striper progression

[NickB79]

2. Oooohhhh, STRIPERS

For some reason I read that with an extra P in the title.