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The excellence of the striper on the table has created an increasing demand
for more and more netting and commercial fishing.
Recently an all-out effort to “Save the Bay” and with it the striper fishery has helped, but the remaining striper numbers have been greatly diminished, and more drastic steps became necessary to bring back the fine fishing in the Chesapeake and its tributaries.
Maryland is the owner of the Chesapeake Bay, and as such, saw the need to close the bay and all of the Maryland tributaries to the taking of stripers, as of Jan. 1, 1985, by any means, including sport fishing. Virginia has been somewhat more selective in its closure of the Virginia tributaries, and somewhat slower.
Effective April 1, 1985, and until further notice, the following river areas are closed to the taking of stripers by hook and line, nets or any other type of gear: All creeks off the Potomac, the James River from Dancing Point at the mouth of the Chickahominy River to City Point in Hopewell, the Mattaponi River from the Route 33 bridge in West Point to the Route 360
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