/ 

 THE STRIPED BASS 



JSkitt of Growth and Size Beached ^ 



This giant among the game-fishes starts from a 

 very small egg. Last year Mr. S. G. Worth, 

 of the United States Fisheries Bureau, recorded 

 35,000 eggs as the number in a United States 

 standard Hquid quart. The egg is therefore smalle 

 than that of the shad, which is about an eighth o: 

 an inch in diameter before fertilization. Thedev|el- 

 ^pment of th e egg in water at a suitable tenipera-, 

 ture is very rapid. ]M[r, Worth states that the 

 embryo four hours old is about three sixteent hs ,of 



I an inch in length. When four days old the young 

 are about a quarter of an inch in length, and at 

 four weeks measure about half an inch. Dr. C. C. 

 Abbott found young bass about one inch long in 

 the Delaware during the second week Iq June, and 

 by the middle of October some of them had reached 

 a length of four and a half inches. In a small pool 

 of fresh water in South Carolina some bass fed 

 upon crabs and oysters increased in about eleven 

 months from six inches to twenty inches in length. 

 In Rhode Isjand, bass confined in a pond grew 

 from half a pound to a pound in June, and to six 

 pounds by the following October. 



Tte fa?te-of"gmwtlnnatafSliy" depends chiefly 



I upon the amount of food obtainable, suitable tem- 

 "Iperature, and quality of the water. In California, 



