FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



It is particularly abundant from New York to 

 North Carolina. There are a few in the St. John's 

 River in Florida, and they are found occasionally 

 on the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico. 

 They run up several of our rivers, the Mississippi as 

 far as St. Louis, and nearly all the rivers of the South- 

 ern States ; in the Hudson, as far as Albany, and in 

 the Connecticut, as far as Hartford. In Canada, they 

 abound along the shores of New Brunswick and 

 Nova Scotia, and are found up the St. Lawrence 

 River as far as Quebec, and there is a record of 

 one caught in the Niagara River. They are, how- 

 ever, most abundant about Cape Hatteras and in 

 the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay regions. 



Its form, size, and markings make it readily dis- 

 tinguishable from other fishes. The color of its 

 body is a light silvery-green above, white below, 

 with seven or eight blackish stripes along the sides. 



Although practically born and bred at sea, those 

 taken in fresh-water rivers are the most choice, 

 most rivers imparting a flavor to them, or improv- 

 ing their condition, in a similar manner to that 

 observed with oysters. They are taken in large 

 quantities for the market by means of seines, gill 

 nets, pound nets, and lines, the annual value of the 

 catch being about $300,000. Very large catches 

 of striped bass have been reported, — for example, 



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