For yet another year the annual stripoed bass young of the year (yoy) survey was below the target threshold. This year the index came in at 3.6, far below the target 11.3. The 2021 index came in at 3.2. The survey is done three times each summer in four spawning waters, the Choptank, Nanticoke, and the Potomac Rivers as well as the upper Chesapeake Bay. I think we may be seeing the pendulum swing to the Hudson River as becoming a more prominent spawning strain of striped bass.
