1404 BULI.ETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



California, but several years thereafter it began to run in some of the coast 

 rivers of Oregon, and in the fall of 1906 half a dozen fine specimens were caught 

 in traps at the mouth of the Columbia River, the first recorded from that stream. 



The striped bass, far removed from its ancestral home, has maintained the 

 enviable reputation it enjoys in the East, and is freely recognized by its new 

 friends as one of the best food and game fishes of the Pacific coast. A number 

 of years ago the catch in California exceeded that of any other State, while now 

 it surpasses that of any group of States along the eastern seaboard. The fish 

 has become a prime favorite with anglers, and it is now probably the leading 

 game fish of California. While it always commands a high price in the East, 

 and is often to be ranked as a luxury, its abundance in California waters has so 

 reduced the cost to consumers that even the most frugal can afford to eat it, 

 and a comparison made some years ago showed that throughout the year the 

 San Francisco dealers were underselling the New York dealers by many points. 

 The economic importance of the introduction of the striped bass on the Pacific 

 coast may be judged from the fact that the entire cost of transplanting was less 

 than $1,000, while the value of the catch to the end of 1907 was about $925,000, 

 a sum representing a yield of more than 16,500,000 pounds. 



The only fishes which the Western States have given to the remainder of 

 the country are two trouts ; but the transplanting of several other trouts is now 

 in progress, and systematic and extensive efforts are being made to establish 

 several of the Pacific salmons in the New England rivers. The foremost con- 

 tribution of the West to the East is the rainbow trout. The transplanting of this 

 species in regions east of the Rocky Mountains has been a conspicuous success 

 and has proved a decided boon to many communities. Its acclimatization by 

 the General Government was first undertaken in 1880, although it is probable 

 that some years prior thereto small plants had been made in new waters by 

 state commissions or private persons. It has now been introduced into nearly 

 every State and Territory, and has become one of the most generally known 

 fishes in every part of the country. In Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, 

 Colorado, Nevada, and throughout the Allegheny Mountain region its trans- 

 planting has been followed by especially noteworthy results. Its position in 

 the streams and lakes of the Eastern States is that of a substitute and not a 

 rival of the brook trout. It is well adapted for the stocking of waters formerly 

 inhabited by the brook trout, in which the latter no longer thrives on account 

 of changed physical conditions; it is also suited to warmer, deeper, and more 

 sluggish waters than the brook trout finds congenial. 



The anadromous steelhead trout of the Pacific coast has been established 

 in Lake Superior and other parts of the Great Eakes as a result of plants of 

 young fish made in 1896, and has also obtained a firm hold in a number of New 

 England lakes, proving a very acceptable addition to the supply of food and 



