Delmarva Aquatics – Smyrna, Delaware
Delmarva Aquatics is known as being one of the largest suppliers of striped bass (Morone saxitilis) in the United States, and also for providing regional fish stocking, transport, and holding services. In addition to striped bass, Delmarva Aquatics can provide (when in season) bluegill, pumpkinseed, yellow perch, minnows, catfish, largemouth bass, and other temperate fish species at various stages of development.
In addition, Delmarva Aquatics has helped academic institutions and other researchers set up temporary and permanent fish holding facilities at universities, electrical generating stations, and other facilities for field experiments, mortality studies, and behavioral research.
Delmarva Aquatics has also provided fish for display at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and in Cabela’s™ retail locations, and has stocked fish on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to support “National Go-Fishing Day” celebrated annually in June.
Master holding tank for latent impingement mortality study
Crowding/collection net for master holding tank
Experimental control tanks and pump/sum set-up
Experimental holding tank rack
Experimental holding tank with Atlantic silversides
Adult female striped bass in Delaware spawning facility
Gillnetting operations on the Delaware River
Electrofishing on the Little Blackwater River in Maryland
Largemouth bass collected by electrofishing being measured
Heather Shotzberger releasing control fish into a fish counting pool for a latent impingement mortality study