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Chesapeake Bay Critters
I am a Forgotten Fish
- I am rapidly decreasing in population.
- They also call me poor man's salmon.
- People are helping us increase our population by helping hatch our eggs
- We are the bay's main source of food.
- Every 2-5 years we flow back up the Susquehanna river to lay our eggs.
- We spawn our own habitat.
- May is our mating season.
- I am very tasty.
- I live in brackish water.
- I have shiny scales.
Who Am I?