Stripers caught inside the SF Bay - safe to eat?

Don't stripers live in the ocean then come into fresh water to spawn or something?  How safe is it to eat stripers caught inside the SF Bay, say near Alameda?

Here are some guidelines:

The big ones have more toxins. The same goes with all fish.  The big fish are breeders and should go back. Stripers in the 24" -28" are the best eating size.

that's a weird info graphic, why would women need to wait till 45 years of age to eat a sturgeon or striped bass?

that's a weird info graphic, why would women need to wait till 45 years of age to eat a sturgeon or striped bass?

I think the idea is women up to 45 years of age are still at child-bearing age. 

I know they have these guidelines for SF bay fishes. What I am puzzling is, do striped bass live in the bay or in the ocean? 

My impression is they live in the ocean and only come into the bay and delta to spawn....  but I'm not sure.  My impression comes from the fact that I catch striped bass in ocean all the time, and those seem safe to eat for anyone. But if it swims into the bay then it becomes dangerous?

The risks are for residential stripers that have never left the bay and their entire feeding history is within the bay.  There's no way to tell which of the stripers you catch in the bay are residential or transient, so the recommendations apply to where you catch them.  It's a statistics based recommendation, not an absolute.

Just curious if anybody knows what percentage of stripers are resident in the bay year around. In his book, Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast, Milton Love says of stripers, "While some individuals wander along the coast, most appear it stay in or near their home river and estuary system." The research articles that I can find online don't seem to have much to add to that.

Stripers don't live in the bay. They hang out there on their way to the ocean (mostly) from the Sac river system where they spawn. That's why we have spring and fall "runs". They cruise the beaches in the summer and start coming back around now. I don't think there's any "resident" fish, as they spawn in freshwater-they are anadromous just like salmon but don't die after spawning. That's why you always see monsters from up in the Sac-they're the big spawners

SF Bay gets flushed clean pretty regularly with tides, so I've always thought that the pollutants, PCB's, etc are from the Sac river and it's tributaries, where ag runoff and many many years of industrial residue is present.

Stripers don't live in the bay. They hang out there on their way to the ocean (mostly) from the Sac river system where they spawn. That's why we have spring and fall "runs". They cruise the beaches in the summer and start coming back around now. I don't think there's any "resident" fish, as they spawn in freshwater-they are anadromous just like salmon but don't die after spawning. That's why you always see monsters from up in the Sac-they're the big spawners

SF Bay gets flushed clean pretty regularly with tides, so I've always thought that the pollutants, PCB's, etc are from the Sac river and it's tributaries, where ag runoff and many many years of industrial residue is present.

Theres some resident fish for sure... 40+ Pounders that dont leave the sloughs. Seen one just last year. Also i'd like to point out the time you posted that hahah. 4:44:44PM.. not bad for precision!

Theres some resident fish for sure... 40+ Pounders that dont leave the sloughs. Seen one just last year. Also i'd like to point out the time you posted that hahah. 4:44:44PM.. not bad for precision!

There may be a small handful but tagging studies are pretty conclusive.

Theres some resident fish for sure... 40+ Pounders that dont leave the sloughs. Seen one just last year. Also i'd like to point out the time you posted that hahah. 4:44:44PM.. not bad for precision!

There may be a small handful but tagging studies are pretty conclusive.

Do you have links to any such studies? I'm probably not Googling the right terms, but I can't find anything very informative...

SF Bay gets flushed clean pretty regularly with tides, so I've always thought that the pollutants, PCB's, etc are from the Sac river and it's tributaries, where ag runoff and many many years of industrial residue is present.

While the water is flushed regularly, I believe the pollutants that cause increased risk to humans are in the bottom mud/sand/etc. and the problem is that fish eat things that live on the bottom and absorb/consume those pollutants.  At least, that's my understanding.

4:44:44PM.. not bad for precision!

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