98 Thirty- Second Annual Meeting 



howf'vcr. in the other states of the region, has not yet been deter- 

 mined. 



Mr. James S. Turner, Secretary of the San Francisco Striped 

 Bass Club, writes me, under date of December 17th, 1902, ''last 

 year more than one million pounds of striped bass were sold in 

 the San Francisco markets." 



In confirmation of this statement, the Hon. George M. Bow- 

 ers, United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, writes 

 me under date of January 20th, 1903, "Statistics gathered for 

 1900 show 1,251,003 pounds in the San Francisco markets in 

 that year." 



^^'ith such phenomenal results achieved by nature alone in 

 California, why should not our own coasts once more be made to 

 teem with schools of striped bass as of yore ? 



Mr. E. M. Waterhouse (who read Mr. Fearing's paper) : Mr. 

 Fearing will be unable to come until later in the Convention and 

 therefore he has asked me to read his paper. He took me away 

 from the important matter of catching shrimp bait to do this for 

 him. 



Mr. Titcomb : Mr. Worth has collected some interesting ma- 

 terial relative to the striped bass in North Carolina waters, and 

 I think it would be proper to hear from him. 



Mr. S. G. Worth of Edenton, X. C. : I have collected quite 

 a good deal of interesting material relative to the hatching of 

 the striped bass in North Carolina waters within the last three 

 or four months ; but I have been unable to digest that matter and 

 get it into report form. I can submit it, however, in some kind 

 of systematic shape now; so what I have to say tonight is, of 

 course, ofF-hand. 



Something that seems to me to be quite an interesting point 

 is that the spawning habits of this fish first attracted considera- 

 ble attention on tlie Albemarle Sound while the United States 

 Fish Commission was operating in those waters. It was known 

 before that time that the striped bass laid its eggs in North Caro- 

 lina and that it had been successfully hatched in that state T 

 think- by Superintendent Green, who is present at this meeting. 

 But when the United States Fish Commission ran upon this spe- 



