THE STRIPED BASS 



to protect the young, and their good effects were 

 soon apparent. 



Fish-culture has come to the rescue of the people 

 also, and the artificial hatching of the eggs has sup- 

 plemented the transplanting of bass with gratify- 

 ing results. Transplanting alone by means of very 

 small numbers has already placed California on a 

 par with the Atlantic coast in the extent of its bass- 

 fishing. Artificial hatching has proceeded in a 

 small and desultory fashion for more than thirty 

 years; but no extensive work in this line was accom- 

 plished until 1904, when Mr. S. G. Worth, of 

 the United States Fisheries Bureau, collected 

 13,683,000 eggs at Weldon, N". C., from May 2 to 

 May 24, the great bulk of them coming in one day, 

 May 6. Sixty-nine per cent of the eggs were 

 hatched. 



Mr. Worth believes that partial rearing in ponds 

 would be successful. Of this there seems to be no 

 doubt, as such experiments have been made at 

 several places along the Atlantic coast, notably in 

 South Carolina and Rhode Island. Striped bass 

 have been captive in the New York Aquarium since 

 1894, and some individuals have increased from 

 about eight ounces to twenty pounds in weight in 

 a pool only twenty-eight feet long and about three 

 feet deep. 



The rearing of choice game-fish in public as well 

 as private waters is worthy of encouragement, as 



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