ISS Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 



bass under the microscope, and I have taken bass even a con- 

 siderable smaller than the specimens and looked at the outside 

 of them under the microscope, and I cannot see any difference 

 between a fish of that size and just a little smaller, and a full 

 grown bass three or four inches long. They are the same. They 

 are a full-fledged fish in shape. You have got the color here in 

 the large mouth of the black striped bass, and I do not see why 

 those fish should be called fry. Xow, a trout in the condition of 

 the specimen of course would be longer and larger — we would 

 not call it a fry, and Avhy should we call the specimen a fry ? We 

 call a trout fry about the time the sac is absorbed, and a little 

 while after; but a two and a half to three months old trout we 

 would not call a fry — it is not a fry, it is a partially grown fish. 

 Now. that is just the case here. This is what 1 argued last ^year, 

 that in my judgment it is just as well to plant those fish as it is 

 to plant your two, four or six inch fish, exactly, excepting that 

 you have protected them that much longer from their enemies — 

 that is my idea of the fry and the fingerlings. 



Mr. Lydell : I have here some large-mouth fry ; but as we 

 shii)ped them out that way I do not know what else you could 

 call them. You would not call them fingerling, and therefore, 

 we call them fry. 



Secretary : Is there any difference between the large-mouth 

 and small-mouth fry ? 



Mr. Lydell : We have shipped all of our small-mouth bass 

 when they first rise from the bed, three or four days old, or else 

 we do not shi]) them until they are fingerlings. 



Secretary: Wliy should you distinguish Ix'tween tlie two — 

 one is a fry as long as the other. 



Mr. Lydell : The large-mouth is a great deal lai'ger than the 

 small-mouth when shipped. 



Mr. Clark : Of course Mr. Lydell would not advocate the 

 shipment of the specimen ? 



Mr. Lydell : Oh no. 



Mr. Clark : And you elaiui those are fry, as I under- 

 stand it. 



Mr. Lydell: Yes. 



j\Ir. Ravenel : How much larger are your small-mouth 

 shipped as fry than the specimen ? 



