American Fisheries Society. 175 
Area Acres. Males, Females. Total. 
1 O16! 2p ieee On earare 0.04 25 30 55 
OMG O) se esha ee he. 0.60 30 34 64 
CGI gle ee erie 0.70 35 40 75 
‘TCV aya a doa al ae are a aa go 104 194 
On account of the backward season, the drawing down of 
the ponds in which the adult bass were held was delayed until 
later than desirable, being May 6, 7, and 8. It is thought that 
handling the fish so near the mating period had the effect of 
discouraging the spawning of many. Moving the parent bass 
from the ponds in which they are wintered, and transferring to 
other breeding or nesting ponds, is not thought desirable. Just 
previous to the spawning season each pond was provided with 
as many Lydell nests as the area would permit. The arrange- 
ment of the nests being very similar in all, only one pond will 
be noted. 
Pond P, which was considered one of the most desirable as 
to available spawning area, was arranged with twenty-four arti- 
ficial nests, as shown in the accompanying diagram, and repre- 
sented by “X,’ while “O” designates the natural nests. The 
latter in the center of the pond were in -from four to six feet 
of water, considerably deeper than the artificial, and further- 
more, the natural nest in the center of the group produced the 
largest number of fry, yet was in the maximum depth of water 
above mentioned. Of the twenty-four artificial nests placed in 
this pond nineteen were cleaned by the bass and spawned on, 
and fifteen of this latter number hatched fry, fourteen of which 
produced fry ready for shipment. 
It will be noted by the diagram that there were eight nat- 
ural nests prepared, seven of which were spawned on and pro- 
duced fry. Of the seven, two died before the fry were more 
than twenty-four hours old, making five the final result. Thus 
it will be noted that of the total number of nests in the pond on 
which eggs were deposited, namely twenty-six, nineteen fur- 
nished fry for distribution or holding for further development. 
These were estimated at 85,000 in number. There were taken 
out of this pond 35,000 as fry and distributed to applicants, 
