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As shown in Table III, the shortest period of time a tagged bass 

 Avas ont was four days and the longest was 354 days, though of course 

 there are a great many fish still at large. There seems to be no relation- 

 ship between the size of fish and the length of time before recovery; 

 however there is some evidence that fish 14 to 18 inches in length were 

 recovered in greater proportion than the smaller sizes, considering the 

 larger numbers of small fish tagged. 



The foregoing is in the nature of a progress report of striped bass 

 tagging. The material at hand, number of fish tagged and recovered, 

 do not afford sufficient data on which to base conclusions on the move- 

 ments of striped bass. It is therefore urged that the sportsmen increase 

 interest in the work and tag more bass in order that we may be able 

 to trace the movements of the stripers with some degree of certainty. 



