A STRIPY SWIMMER

By: Caleb C.

A STRIPY APPEARANCE

A striper is a fish with straight stripes on its body

They are long and skinny with lots of scales

An average striper is 5 to 45 in. and 2 to 60 pounds

A striped bass breathes through its gills and swims with its fins

A STRIPY APPETITE

Stripers mostly eat fish

But they also eat shrimp, plankton, worms, crawfish, and amphipods

The fish they mostly eat are shad, perch, brim, trout, and herein

R.A.L.P.S

Well first of all R.A.L.P.s stands for Rivers, Atlantic Ocean, Lakes, and Ponds; which is where stripers live

Stripers live in fresh and saltwater

A striped bass gets really Big in saltwater

STRIPY FACTS

Did you know stripers spawn in freshwater

A stripers first cousin is a hybrid, a mixture of a striper and a white bass

Stripers have eyes on the side of their head

It lays thousands of eggs and are fast swimmers

FACTS

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