Chesapeake Bay 2025 YOY Striped Bass Survey Results – More Bad News

Striped bass are officially in a death spiral.

Maryland released the results of the 2025 Striped Bass Young-of-Year Survey. The press release calls it “…an improvement over recent years…”. Nice try. The only way to describe the 2025 spawn in the upper Chesapeake is an abject failure. Worse, it is the seventh year in a row that striped bass have failed to reproduce at a meaningful rate.