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caught. In closing I want to ask this question : "Has it 

 been proven that these fish will not ripen in crates?" 



DISCUSSION 



PRESinENT: The members present may remember that the striped 

 bass was introduced on the Pacific coast twenty-five or thirty years 

 ago, and has been one of the notable successes in the transplanting 

 of market fish. They are perhaps more abundant on the Pacific Coast 

 to-day than on the Atlantic. The shad is another unusual example 

 of the same thing. 



Mr. Bower, of Michigan: Were the shad and striped bass taken 

 to the Pacific Coast as fry or eggs? 



President: My impression is that the hatching was going on en- 

 route and that they were practically all hatched by the time the Sacra- 

 mento River was reached, and that they were planted as very young 

 fry. 



Note: As late as 1876, shad fry were taken from Holyoke, Mass., 

 to the Sacramento River and deposited alive at Tehama, Cal. 



T. H. Bean. 



