Landlocked Striped Bass
Striped bass are an anadromous fish and their spawning ritual of traveling up rivers to spawn led some of them to become landlocked during lake dam constructions. It is now documented that the first area they became landlocked was in the Santee-Cooper river during the construction of the two dams that impounded Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, and because of this the state game fish of South Carolina is the striped bass.
Recently biologists believe that striped bass stayed in rivers for long periods of time, some not returning to sea unless temperature changes forced migration. Once fishermen and biologists caught on to rising striped bass populations, many state natural resources departments started stocking striped bass in local lakes. Striped bass still continue the natural spawn run in freshwater lakes, traveling up river and blocked at the next dam, which is why they are landlocked. Landlocked stripers have a hard time reproducing naturally, and one of the few and most successful rivers they have been documented reproducing successfully is the Coosa River in Alabama and Georgia.
One of the only landlocked striped bass populations in Canada, is located in the Grand Lake, Nova Scotia. They migrate out in early April into the Shubencadie river to spawn. These bass also spawn in the Stewiacke river (tributary of the Shubencadie river). The Shubencadie river system is one of five known spawning areas in Canada for Striped bass. The others being St. Lawerence river, Miramichi River, Saint John river, Annapolis river and Shubencadie/Stewiacke rivers. http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/species-especes/stripedbass-Fundy-barraye-eng.htm
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