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are significant here due to their intimate relation to the companion values. 

 For example, the greater growth by bass in the clear ponds is of added 

 significance since the survival rates also were higher in the clear than in 

 the intermediate or muddy ponds. 



Table 8. Growth, survival, and total weights of largemouth bass, bluegill and 

 channel catfish in relation to turbidity in hatchery ponds. Figures 

 in parenthesis denote percent recovery of original number stocked. 



Growth figures are for adults only; total weights include adults plus young. 



