{"id":32760,"date":"2021-03-11T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=32760"},"modified":"2021-03-11T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:07:08","slug":"maryland-joins-cooperative-largemouth-bass-management-for-the-potomac-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/03\/11\/maryland-joins-cooperative-largemouth-bass-management-for-the-potomac-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Joins Cooperative Largemouth Bass Management for the Potomac River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tagging Program to Help Regional Effort for Popular Fishery<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1580\/24108025940_aef2e14615.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of fish being studied in the river\" width=\"344\" height=\"267\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Karin Dodge\/Maryland DNR<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia have agreed to a cooperative management plan for Potomac River <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Fisheries\/Pages\/Fish-Facts.aspx?fishname=Largemouth%20Bass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largemouth bass<\/a>, one of the most popular sport fisheries in the mid-Atlantic region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To help seek a unified assessment of the fishery, state agencies and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission &#8212;\u00a0 who share authority to manage the river system for largemouth bass &#8212; are jointly collaborating on monitoring and assessing the fishery with an update produced every three years. Work begins in March 2021, though planning for the project has been underway for more than a year.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The objective of the new collaboration is twofold: to estimate abundance of largemouth largemouth bass in a portion of the river and to develop a joint assessment of the population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To help encourage angler participation and reporting, hundreds of bass will be tagged, and anglers who report a tag will be entered into a raffle for small prizes.\u00a0 Both recreational and tournament anglers who catch tagged largemouth bass are asked to report details of the catch. Those who submit their information are eligible to be entered into an annual prize lottery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tags may be reported by anglers fishing throughout the year to 1-804-367-2925 (maintained by Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries). Tags may also be reported online with Maryland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Fisheries\/Pages\/survey\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Angler Survey<\/a> for freshwater fishes or during bass tournaments to fisheries staff. Anglers who report capturing a marked largemouth largemouth bass are asked to report the tag number, date of capture, catch-and-release location, size of fish, and other details of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tagging Program to Help Regional Effort for Popular Fishery Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia have agreed to a cooperative management plan for Potomac River largemouth bass, one of the most popular sport fisheries in the mid-Atlantic region.\u00a0 To help seek a unified assessment of the fishery, state agencies and the Potomac River Fisheries<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/03\/11\/maryland-joins-cooperative-largemouth-bass-management-for-the-potomac-river\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[3236,2926,3184],"class_list":["post-32760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-largemouth-bass","tag-potomac-river","tag-potomac-river-fisheries-commission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32764,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760\/revisions\/32764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}