Striped bass can’t get a break, it seems. With their East Coast population in decline from overfishing, the migratory species had mixed success reproducing in the Chesapeake Bay this year, surveys ...

The fishing season for large rockfish in tributaries of the Potomac River, along the Atlantic coastline and parts of the Chesapeake Bay is canceled in Virginia this year out of concern for the fish’s ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fisheries officials in Virginia have ruled that fishermen can keep just one striped bass instead of two per day for the upcoming season. The Virginian-Pilot reports the Virginia Marine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Brian Hardman (left) of Lead Dog Charters and his mate, Luke Kalhorn, fillet striped bass at a marina in Stevensville in ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WRIC) — A Virginia fisherman has been sentenced for illegally harvesting striped bass over the course of several years. Commercial fisherman Keith J. Martin, 52, was sentenced to four ...

Virginia State Police have recovered a fourth body from the Rockfish River in Nelson County near where a vehicle submerged in December. The body has been identified as Myson Sylvestre, 18, of ...