Wild Fauna officials suspend the bass season in roanoke river bass stripes

Strong fishing season in the roanoke river was suspend As the state officials for wild animals say is a necessary movement, because the population has not improved, despite the previous harvest reductions.

The season of harvesting the hook and the striped line in the Roanoke river management area, which takes place on March 1-April 30, includes the river, its tributaries from the Roooke Rapids dam to Albemarle Sound and Cashie, Middle and East Mast.

In the last three years, discounts have been made in the bass harvest in Roanoke River stripes, but “the population has shown few improvements”, a Commission for Wild Animal Resources in North Carolina said.

“In 2024, NCWRC biologists observed a continuation of the tendency declining in the abundance of bass in stripes during the survey to let go”, the release shows. “The low abundance and the impact of high mortality have led to a poor breeding success in the last seven years, even when the Roanoke river conditions have been considered optimal for reproduction.”

The agency works with the North Carolina Marine fishing division to address the decreases of bass stock in the Roanoke river and Albemarle Sound.

The striped bass caught in the inner and joint waters in the Roanoke River management area must be returned immediately to the waters where they are taken.

The bass with stripes in the river upstream of the US Highway 258 Bridge near Scotland in Halifax County can be fished using only a single barbless circle hook, with the use of living or natural bait or a single barbles hook, or without beard. That the beard is bent down downwards, using the approach between April 1 and June 30.

Ben Ricks, the fishing supervisor of the commission’s coastal region, said that the discounts of the bass population in the Roanoke river are considered.

“We are working to understand the mechanisms that led to the decrease of bass populations in Roanoke River and Albemarle Sound,” Ricks said in a statement. “We will also continue to store the bass with stripes this year in Sound Roanoke River and Albemarle Sound in cooperation with DMF. We will evaluate the effectiveness of the storage as a return of the bass in the stripes on the breeding land over the next three to five years. “

Wild fauna officials will evaluate the next season of bass harvesting with striped before opening from March 1, 2026. Further information is available on the commission Web page with bass species stripe.