These fingerlings are produced at state hatcheries, usually from broodstock collected from an Arkansas Lake.
Striped bass are an anadramous ocean fish that travels into fresh water to spawn.
These stockings were very successful. Striped bass introductions have always been controversial because any fear that such a large fish must forage heavily on other sportfish species. In Arkansas, this has not been the case. Stripers feed almost exclusively on gizzard and threadfin shad, which are open water schooling species in the herring family. In lakes where shad are not available, Stripers will become gaunt then starve without switching to another type of prey.