THE BASSES: FRES H-W ATER AND MARINE 



writer at Blue Point Cove, Great River, Nichols's 

 Point, and off Widow's Creek. A great haul was 

 made about the middle of October, 1901, on the 

 Lone Hill middle-ground. In some tributaries of 

 Great South Bay the fish remains throughout the 

 year. 



Dr. Mearns reported the capture of great num- 

 bers of bass in nets set through the ice of the 

 Hudson in winter, and in the drift nets of the 

 shad-fishermen in spring. Large individuals weigh- 

 ing sixty pounds or more are sometimes taken in 

 winter and early spring. Dr. Mearns took a speci- 

 men in fresh water a little above the estuary of 

 Poplopen's Creek. 



At Wood's Hole, Mass., the fish arrives about 

 May 1 and leaves about November 1. It is not a 

 common specimen and apparently does not spawn 

 there; it ranges in weight from half a pound to 

 sixty-five pounds. 



The striped bass ascends the St. Lawrence at 

 least as far as Quebec, and may possibly reach the 

 Niagara, where a specimen has been reported at 

 Lewiston. It is not certain, however, that this in- 

 dividual was a striped bass; it may have been the 

 white bass, which resembles its marine relative, 

 although much smaller and confined strictly to 

 fresh water. 



The striped bass was introduced into California 

 through the joint efforts of the United States Fish 



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