Popular SaIt=Watcr Game Fish 



Individuals arc known to have been taken every 

 year in the Ahihama River, Lower Mississippi, 



in the vicinity of Pensacola, Florida, 

 trfbutkln^'*^ in the great bays and sounds from 



North Carolina to Cape Cod. Large 

 numbers are caught in Albemarle Sound, at Eden- 

 ton, North Carolina, and near Norfolk, Virginia. 

 In the Potomac River the fish ascends to the Great 

 Falls. It is one of the most highly esteemed fish 

 of the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. The 

 Jersey and New England coast are the centre of 

 their abundance. Large numbers are caught by 



lines and by seines. The striped 

 Distribution '^^^^ ascends the St. Lawrence as far 



as Quebec. It was introduced into 

 California in 1879 and 1882, and has now become 

 so abundant that the annual catch by fishermen is 

 nearly as large as the yearly supply on the Atlantic 

 Coast. 



Russian River, in Sonoma County, Cal., seems to 

 be the Northern limit, while Monterey Bay is the 

 Southern boundary, but in 1903 more were planted 

 in the vicinity of San Diego Bay, and later ar- 

 rangements were also made to send bass to Del 

 Norte County, where the waters are considered 

 suitable for the experiment. The most favorable 

 haunts of the Pacific Coast are Lake Merritt in 

 Oakland, California, San Francisco Bay, San 

 Leandro Bay, and San Antonio Slough; the last 

 is celebrated for its great numbers of big fish. 



The striped bass prefers cold waters. It is frci 

 quently found at the mouths of small creeks and 

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