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Striped Bass Genome Community StriperHUB: NOAA Sea Grant Collaborative Aquaculture Research Hub (striped & hybrid striped bass)

The striped bass (Morone saxatilis) is a perciform fish of recreational and commercial importance in North America. We employed a hybrid assembly approach to produce the striped bass genome using 38,000,000,000 base pairs of Illumina short-read sequence (66-fold genome coverage) and an additional 1,600,000,000 base pairs of Pacific Biosciences single molecule, real-time long-read sequence (2.8-fold genome coverage). The 585,100,000 base pair (585.1 Mbp) genome assembly contains 35,010 scaffolds. Ab-initio and evidence-based gene predictions were performed using the MAKER Annotation Pipeline, identifying 27,485 protein coding genes.

StriperHub!
10/01/2026

StriperHub!

👏 We’re excited to announce Miranda Aleshire as the winner of the 2026 NCSF Storefront Photo Contest with her photo, “Keeping Our Community Growing One Catch at a Time.”

Miranda’s photo beautifully captures NC's working waterfront, the families and fishermen behind every catch, and the sense of community that has been part of the North Carolina Seafood Festival for 40 years.

Her image will be featured on this year’s official Storefront Poster as we celebrate the 40th Annual North Carolina Seafood Festival right here on the Morehead City waterfront.

Congratulations, Miranda, and a big thank you to everyone who shared a photo with us this year. We can’t wait to celebrate with you October 2–4, 2026! 🎉

05/09/2026

Another striped bass paper:

New paper published:
05/06/2026

New paper published:

AbstractObjective. The Striped Bass Morone saxatilis is an emerging cultivar in the United States due in large part to its rapid growth rate and the abilit

New paper published:
04/20/2026

New paper published:

Reliable developmental benchmarks are essential for synchronizing incubation and first-feeding decisions in striped bass (Morone saxatilis) hatcheries, yet existing references are incomplete, outdated, or difficult to apply across variable temperature regimes. We developed contemporary embryo and la...

03/19/2026
03/06/2026

North Carolina Sea Grant news

09/27/2025
05/21/2025

Fish meal (FM) and fish oil (FO) are vital components commonly used in feed formulations. However, their supply, which generally comes from capture fisheries, is being exhausted, necessitating the exploration of sustainable alternatives. In a two-part study, the first part evaluated the FM and FO de...

04/04/2025

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Benjamin J. Reading (PhD), North Carolina State University, Department Of Applied Ecology
Raleigh, NC
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