THE STRIPED BASS 



fully in fresh- water ponds, where their increase of 

 weight has been rapid, but no one has yet discovered 

 their spawning in such waters. 



Artificial. The natural distribution of the 

 striped bass has been supplemented in the United 

 States by the transplanting of the fish to California 

 waters, and this experiment has constituted one of 

 the great triumphs of modern fish-culture, as the 

 yearly catch of striped bass in California, both com- 

 mercially and for sport, is nearly equal to the yield 

 in Atlantic waters. There is, however, a marked 

 difference in the marketing of the fish, because when 

 New York is paying twenty to thirty cents a pound 

 San Francisco can have the same fish for a few 

 cents, the wholesale price at certain seasons ranging 

 from three quarters of a cent to a cent and a half 

 a pound. 



In the Potomac River the fish ascends to the 

 Great Falls. It has been one of the commonest and 

 most highly esteemed fish of the Delaware and 

 Susquehanna rivers, though unfortunately it has 

 not been so abundant there in recent years. It has 

 been regarded as a permanent resident of Graves- 

 encl Bay, N. Y., with the fishery at its height from 

 the 10th of October to the 10th of November. Bass 

 up to forty-five pounds in weight were formerly 

 caught in May, but in the fall the fish range from 

 nine to twenty- four inches in length. In Great 

 South Bay specimens have been obtained by the 



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