Stop overfishing for striped bass! That’s the message from Massachusetts Environmental Police, who are cracking down on ...

September and October used to be the best time of year to catch striped bass. Now the pinnacle for the species revered in the annual Island Derby is months earlier, in June. And as the month comes to ...

It’s not just great white sharks that are taking stripers from fishermen these days. Porbeagle sharks — which stick around the Bay State all year — have been spotted several times in the last week ...

A pair of recent papers, led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published in Fisheries Research and Marine and Coastal Fisheries, sought to comprehensively pinpoint which ...

In a media advisory last week, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries outlined how it is continuing to make the striped bass fishery enjoyable and sustainable. “This year will likely be a ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Department of Game’s Division of Marine Fisheries and Massachusetts Environmental Trust announced an online auction of 20 low-number striped bass specialty license ...