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ing condition, the U. 8S. Bureau of Fisheries would like to know 
it. 
The same way with the sturgeon for that matter. We want 
to propagate those fish where they are spawning in sufficient 
abundance to make it worth while to do so, anywhere in the 
country. 
Mr. Stranahan: I would like to ask Mr. Worth what the 
prospects are of hatching the jumping mullet in large quanti- 
ties ? 
Mr. Worth: I think there is an unusually good prospect. 
At Beaufort last fall they had a storm about the 8th of Octo- 
ber which caused the large fish to scatter from there, and they 
caught very few there, but ordinarily they catch large fish in 
quantity. They always catch large spawning fish in quantity a 
few miles below in the adjoining counties. From specimens 
which I saw in November of last year, after the October spawn- 
ing had occurred, I am perfectly confident that the fish spawned 
at Beaufort, and their yield of eggs per fish must be enormous 
from the small size of them and the great quantity that is in the 
individual. I saw dead specimens with the eggs all over their 
bodies; it looked as if a person with damp hands had put his 
hands in a barrel of old fashioned brown sugar. ‘They were 
sticking all over the fish from the nose to the end of the tail; 
and the oldest and most reliable fisherman at Cape Lookout and 
on Shackleford’s banks where my observations were made, con- 
firmed the statement that in the cool sharp weather in the fall 
it had been a common thing there all their lives to see the body 
of the water on the rip-rap shoals covered with the great quantity 
of eggs that those fish had ejected. I could say more on this 
subject but I suppose I have answered the question. 
Mr. Stranahan: One more question: is it not a fact that the 
jumping mullet for the extreme south is the most important of 
all fishes ? 
Mr. Worth: The jumping mullet is only just coming to be 
thoroughly appreciated by the better class of people. In the 
south he has been called a “nigger” fish, and for that reason a 
great many southern people won't eat it. 
