10 Big Game Fishes 
spawn, and out of every million eggs deposited, a 
very small percentage, certainly not ten, attain the 
adult stage. There are great concerted move- 
ments at the spawning period. Some fishes pair. 
The female, as a rule, pays no attention to the 
eggs or young, and in nearly all instances where 
nests are constructed, as in the case of the 
stickleback, the sunfish, Semod¢zlus, lamprey, and 
many more, it is the male which builds the nest. 
The Acard carries the eggs and later the young in 
its mouth, 
The spawn is deposited in the open sea, in 
the case of the tuna, albacore, bonito, and other 
pelagic fishes; at the surface in bays, as in the 
case of the flying-fish. Some fishes, as certain 
California sculpins, attach eggs in great clusters 
to rocks; others again, as the rock-bass, form a 
simple nest, while others, as the salmon, deposit 
the eggs on sandy or gravelly bottom; some, as 
the blackfish, among weeds or grass. Over the 
eggs the male distributes the milt which impreg- 
nates them, and in a greater or less time the 
young appear, immediately becoming the prey 
to a thousand enemies. Some fishes possess the 
schooling instinct, as the herring, sardine, Cali- 
fornia barracuda, mullet, and others; the ma- 
