406 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



The White Bass is sometimes called Striped Bass, and is probably the Silver 

 Bass of Canada. Its center of abundance is the Great Lakes region, but it is also 

 widely distributed over the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. In Pennsylvania the 

 species is found in Lake Erie and in the tributaries of the Ohio River. The U. S. 

 Fish Commission secured three specimens at Horse Island, Sackett's Harbor, 

 N. Y., June 30. The New Jersey Fish Commission has introduced the fish into 

 Greenwood Lake. 



The White Bass weighs from i to 3 pounds, and its flesh is considered almost if 

 not equally as good as that of the Black Bass. It prefers the deeper parts of rivers 

 and thrives best in lakes and ponds. In April and May they leave the deeper 

 waters and go in near shore or to the mouths of rivers where they spawn. The 

 spawning period is in May and June. 



The White Bass feeds upon Minnows, Crawfish and other fresh-water crustaceans, 

 also minute mollusks or shellfish, and it is said to devour many young Whitefish 

 upon the spawning grounds of that species. 



It is a game fish and affords good sport to the angler. 



112. Striped Bass; Rock fish (Rocc/is lincatus Bloch). 



Roccus striatus Mitchill, Rept. Fish. N. Y. 25, 1814. 



Perca mitchilli Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. See. N. Y., I, 413, pi. Ill, fig. 4, 1815. 



Perca mitchilli altcrnata Mitchiix, Trans. Lit. & Phil. See. N. Y., I, 415, 1815. 



Pcrca mitchilli interrupta Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 415, 1815. 



Labrax lineatiis DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 7, pi. i, fig. 3, 1842. 



Roccus lineattis Bean, 19th Rept. Comm. Fish. N. Y., 267, pi. XVIII, fig. 22, 1890; Fishes 



Penna., 131, color ]il. 14, 1893; Bull. .\m. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 365, 1897; Jordan 



& EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1132, 1896, pi. CLXXX, fig. 478, 1900; 



Eugene Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 1897, 38, 1898; Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist.. X, 32 r, 1898; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. for 1897, 99, 1898; Bean, 



52d Ann. Rept. N. Y. State Mus., 105, 1900. 



Sides greenish above, silvery below, sometimes with a brassy lustre and marked 

 by seven or eight longitudinal streaks none of which are half as wide as the eye, one 

 of them passing along the lateral line ; the lowermost stripe is somewhat below the 

 middle of the depth. 



In the southern United States from New Jersey to Florida the Striped Bass is 

 known as the Rock or Rockfish. In the Northern States the name Striped Bass is 

 more generally used than the other, especially along the coast. In the Delaware, 

 Susquehanna and Potomac Rivers it is called Rockfish. Green Head and Squid 



