THE RECENT HATCHING OF STRIPED BASS AND 
POSSIBILITIES WITH OTHER COMMER- 
CIAL SPECIES. 
IBY SagGe) WiORAIEC 
The second season of operations in striped bass hatching by 
the Bureau of Fisheries was concluded at Weldon, N. C., on 
May 31st, just passed. From the experimental basis of the pre- 
ceding year, the equipment was enlarged to an extent to permit 
operations of some proportions, but constructed and arranged 
along temporary lines as before, canvas tents serving as cover- 
ing for hatchery and employes’ quarters. In place of thirty 
hatching jars, used the year before, 120 were put in, and all 
other preparations were made in about the same fourfold pro- 
portion. 
A striking and rather embarrassing feature was the occur- 
rence of eggs in gluts, eighty-three and one-half per cent of the 
season’s collections bemg obtained on one date. Of 13,683,000 
eggs gathered, 11,427,000 were brought in on May 6, enough to 
overstock the hatchery, to the extent of seven jars, allowing 
90,000 to the jar. All the eggs are good. I was aware that the 
jar equipment was under the mark, but as there was much other 
equipment equally necessary and consuming funds, I depended 
on seventy Seth Green Boxes, made on the grounds, for the 
receipt of any eggs which the jars would not accommodate. It 
was only because of a bad season of fishing that the 120-jar 
equipment proved to be ample for the occasion. 
An actual account of eight fluid ounces of eggs revealed the 
presence of 35,148 in a United States standard quid quart. 
The hundreds being dropped, 35,000 was adopted as the unit of 
measure, and a measure stick was made with five gradations to 
the inch, representing fifths of a quart or 7,000 eggs. The 
lines on a shad measure stick also denote 7,000 eggs, but they 
stand for fourths of a quart, fourths of 28,000. The striped 
bass seale, if divided into fourths, would lead to endless frac- 
tions. Last year’s computations of eggs and fry were based on 
an estimated quantity of 25,000 to the quart and need to be 
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