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and one quarter pounds, and the largest fish may yield a million eggs. The period of 

 incubation with water temperature of fifty-eight degrees is five days. Seventy-five 

 per cent, of some eggs have produced fry, but less than one per cent, of most of the 

 eggs hatch, and they are taken from commercial fish, and are not received in good 

 order. — From "Manual of Fish Culture." 



Tl)e Wea^fisi). 



The weakfish is a prominent food fish commercially, as well as hook-and-line fish. 

 Its average size is under five pounds, but it grows to thirty pounds. It has been 

 hatched artificially by the United States Fish Commission, the eggs being very small, 

 and they hatch in two days with the water at sixty degrees. The "sea trout" is also 

 a weakfish, called spotted squeteague, and is smaller than the fish figured in the illus- 

 tration, the maximum weight being about ten pounds. 



A. N. CHENEY, 



State Fish Culturist. 



