<p>I Have the Question, Who Has the Answer? </p><p>Answer Cards</p><p>A rise in water Water temperature From mid April to From 29-80 hours temperature. between 55-68˚F. the first weeks of depending on water May. temperature.</p><p>If the eggs were The size and age They range from In the upper laid by a female of the female. 2.0-3.7 mm and are Chesapeake Bay weighing 10 about the size width where there is less pounds or more. of a grain of rice. salt.</p><p>Closer to the Canada It is the nursery area Detritus, bacteria, Atlantic Ocean for striped bass phytoplankton, where the water is larvae. zooplankton and saltier. striped bass larvae.</p><p>A partially Melting snow and The Atlantic Ocean. Where the salt and enclosed coastal ice and rain that fresh water meet body of water runs off the land and mix. where salt and and enters fresh water mix. streams. Fresh water and The Hudson River The Susquehanna They are able to salt water have and the San River. hide from predators. different Francisco Bay are densities. two examples.</p><p>Copepods which They are finless as Into other parts of Salt water, so it are a type of larvae and can’t the Chesapeake sinks. zooplankton. swim to find food. Bay. In the landward In the seaward A high Trapping direction. direction. concentration of dirt mechanisms are too is mixed and strong for small suspended in the organisms to swim. water column.</p><p>Flood tide. Ebb tide. Two high tides and Up estuary toward two low tides in 24 the land. hours.</p><p>Down estuary Due to the energy The daily tides. Wind and pulse away from the of the fresh water water events. land. flow.</p><p>They might be March Through the process Phytoplankton transported past of photosynthesis. the ETM where there is not an abundance of prey. Larger fish and Young of Year More sediment is Phytoplankton humans. juvenile striped suspended creating requires light to bass. a dark nursery to photosynthesize hide in and the which is not present necessary in the ETM. components of the food web. Along the East Up to 30 years. 18-21˚ C Warmer than 77˚F Coast from Florida to Canada. Monies derived Striped bass. Great Shellfish 1639 from the sale of Bay. Striped bass.</p><p>1670 The Maryland Overfishing, dam 1879 Assembly. construction, and habitat degradation.</p><p>Fertilizer Commercial World War II was Following World landings reached a occurring. War II in the historic low. 1940’s.</p><p>Development of More than 60% of Human From a jetty in enhanced fishing male and female disturbances, Atlantic City. tackle and striped bass. contaminants, boating eutrophication, equipment. climate and disease.</p><p>78 and ½ pounds Development of Rebuild the striped Stopped all an interstate bass stock. commercial and management plan recreational fishing for striped bass. of stripe bass.</p><p>The striped bass 1995 Striped bass larvae Yes, there are size fishing stocks were above the and catch limits. recovered. decadal average. </p>