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South Carolina natural reproduction stripers

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Stripers are anadromous. That is they spend their lives in saltwater and return anually to the freshwater rivers that they were born in to spawn.
Anadromous fish can be conditioned to live solely in freshwater. The pure striper requires approximately 37 miles of river with a suitable current for their eggs to remain bouyant, get fertilized and hatch.
(more area is needed in rainy years) Most stocked impoundments dont contain the necessary conditions for natural reproduction. There are exceptions and reproduction has been evidenced in some river chains. One example is the Ace basin in South Carolina and its river chain where these fish have been found to be reproducing naturally. In South Carolina, the rivers that flow south from Columbia provide enough movement for stripers to reproduce naturally.
However most purebred freshwater striped bass fish need to be continually stocked. Without the free flowing current the eggs fall to the floor and suffocate before they can be fertilized and become viable.
 
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