counted between upstream and downstream 

 areas in the Santee- Cooper, James, York and 

 Hudson Rivers. 



Hildebrand, S.F. andW.C. Schroeder. 



1928. Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay. U.S. 

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4 . Samples from above and below Lachner, 



Pinopolis Dam in the Santee-Cooper River Sys- 1955. 



tem in South Carolina belong to one population 

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E. A. 

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5. The Hudson River population is homo- 

 geneous among year classes and indications are 

 that there is only one population. 



6 . The Chesapeake Bay population is 

 divided into three main subpopulations . They 

 are the James, with the highest gill raker counts, Mayr, E., 

 the York -Rappahannock, with the lowest counts, 1953. 



and the Upper Bay, which has intermediate 

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Marr, J. C. 



1935. The use of morphometric data in 

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7. The gill raker counts of samples from 

 the western end of Long Island Sound were in- 

 termediate between those of Chesapeake Bay and 

 those of the Hudson River. 



8. California and Hudson River speci- 

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9. The Delaware River population is 

 approached most closely by the James River sub- 

 population from Chesapeake Bay. 



10. Samples from the Santee-Cooper 

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 mean gill raker counts, while those from the 

 Hudson River have the highest counts along the 

 Atlantic Coast. 



McGregor, E. A. 



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of northern anchovy ( Engraulis mordax 

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11. It is shown that gill raker counts can 

 be used to separate populations of striped bass. 



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