104 Thirty -Second Annual Meeting 



Mr. Worth: AI)out full moon, the first week in Ma}^, jus* 

 after the shad. 



My. Clark : Is the water pretty warm ? 



.Mr. Worth : Yes, the water is about 70° F. 



Mr. Clark : Are yon not a little afraid in regard to the pen- 

 ning of the females that you might meet with the same difficult} 

 that we found in attempting to pen the shad. 



Mr. Worth : Very possibly. 



Mr. Titeomb : What was the temperature at that time? 



Mr. Worth : About 70° in the river. 



]Mr. Waterhouse: What is the method of transportation? It 

 is not mentioned in the paper whether the fish are carried in jars 

 or cans as trout fry are, or how have you transported them ? 



Mr. Worth: I do not know of any having been carried in 

 cans at all. It has been done I presume, because quite a numbei 

 were hatched on Battery Island on one occasion. They can be 

 carried just like shad fry, and without difficulty, for I have held 

 them for days in Fish Commission cans with but slight change 

 of water. 



Mr. Jones, of Elrwin, Tenn. : The canning of rock bass was 

 tried by the Fish Commission at Battery Station about two years 

 before Mr. Ravenell was appointed superintendent, which was 

 during the days when we had a large seine, and we tried to pen 

 the bass and shad, and it proved a complete failure in botli cases. 

 The fish became scarred np, and fungiised, and the whole experi- 

 ment was a failure. 



Mr. Clark: In the penning at Havre de Grace, we could hoM 

 the mnle fish but not the female. Only three were ever stripped, 

 and they were practically ripe when they were put in the ])en. 



]\Ir. Titeomb: What I v/anted to suggest about the penning 

 was to hold them back by some arrangement similar to that 

 used on tlu" Pacific Coast with the salmon. I am aware that it 

 would l)e entirely a gamble, because the river rises very (piickly, 

 but if it happened that during the short period of spawning, or 

 pca-haps a week or two longer, in order to get your fish, the river 

 did not. rise. h\- the us<' of salmon racks one would have a pool 

 there verv large in area, quite decq). with very swift live water 

 running into it. 1 was wondering if it Avas possible in some 

 such case as that to hold the rock fish for a week or two and get 



