[24] Smith, North Carolina Geol. and Econ. Surv., vol. 2, 1907, p. 271.
[25] Atkins, Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 694.
[26] Kindly lent by John Adams.
[27] For a detailed tabulation of the length-weight relationship for bass from ¼ pound to 47¼
pounds, see Merriman, Fish. Bull. No. 35, 1941, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, p. 7, vol. 50,
1950, pp. 1-77.
[28] As scaled from a graph given by Scofield, California Fish and Game, vol. 18, 1932, pp.
168-170, fig. 38.
[29] Definite information in this regard is scant.
[30] Interesting recent studies of the striped bass are by Pearson (Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol.
49, 1938, pp. 825-851) and by Merriman (Fishery Bull. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941,
77 pp.).
[31] Frank Mather of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reports an instance of this.
[32] Fish. Bull. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 43.
[33] Henry Lyman informs us that bass are caught in numbers late in the autumn in the rips east of
Nantucket about 4 miles out, but that verbal reports of some taken during the summer of 1950 on
the offshore part of Georges Bank were actually based on two weakfish (p. 419).
[34] Reported to us by Capt. Henry W. Klimm of the dragger Eugene H.
[35] Information from Henry Lyman, from an angling correspondent in Alabama. They have long been
known up the Alabama as far as Montgomery (Pearson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 49, 1938, p.
826).
[36] According to Adams (Field and Forest Rambles, 1873, Pt. 3, Fishes, pp. 248-249), who has
given an interesting and readable account of the bass in the river.
[37] Merriman, Fishery Bulletin No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 43.
[38] See Merriman, Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, pp. 33, 34,
fig. 24, for details.
[39] For details we refer the reader to Merriman's original account (Fish. Bull No. 35, Fish and
Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, pp. 36-42, figs. 26-29; also pp. 71-73, tables 17-20), which is
the most authoritative discussion of the subject that has appeared yet.
[40] the few returns so far from bass of 5 pounds and upward that have been tagged have been from
nearby, and soon after they were released.
[41] Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 42.
[42] Using this term to mean extensive seasonal journeys.
[43] Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 42.
[44] See Merriman, Fishery Bulletin No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 17,
for precise salinites in which bass in their first summer have been taken in the Hudson River, and
in the Parker River, Massachusetts. See Tresselt (Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 14, art. 1,
pp. 98-110, 1952) for a survey of spawning grounds tributary to Chesapeake Bay.
[45] Pearson (Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 49, 1938, p. 829) records a female with eggs from the
Alabama River near Montgomery.
[46] Greeley (New York Conserv. Dept., Biol. Surv. Lower Hudson Watershed, 1937, p. 100) concludes
that the spawning season in the Hudson "includes May."
[47] See Smith, North Carolina Geol. Econ. Survey, vol. 2, 1907, p. 272, for an eyewitness account
by S. G. Worth.
[48] Merriman (Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 19) gives an
excellent summary of information available as to spawning, characteristics of the eggs, and period
of incubation.
[49] Hildebrand and Schroeder, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 43, Pt. 1, 1928, pp. 248-249.
[50] Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 17, fig. 10.
[51] Atkins, Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 693.
[52] Merriman, Copeia, 1937, p. 23.
[53] New York Conserv. Dept., Biol. Surv. Lower Hudson Watershed, 1937, p. 62.
[54] Bean, Bull. New York State Mus., 60, Zool. 9, 1903, p. 527.
[55] Scaled from Scofield's graph (California Fish and Game, vol. 18, 1932, pp. 168-170, fig. 38).
[56] See Scofield, Fish Bull. No. 29, Div. of Fish and Game, California, 1931 for growth of bass
in California.
[57] Bull. New York Zool. Soc., vol. 16, No. 60, November 1913, p. 1049.
[58] Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 22.
[59] Merriman, Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 16.
[60] Pearson (Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 49, 1938, p. 827, fig. 1) charts its United States
range, but does not include its Canadian range.
[61] Gerlach (Contrib. 14, Oregon Fish. Comm., 1950) gives an interesting account of the life
history and distribution of the striper in Oregon waters.
[62] Many are caught by anglers casting in the Cape Cod Canal, but this is not properly a part of
the Gulf of Maine.
[63] the bouldery area at the eastern end at the North River inlet is now within the limits of the
military reservation; hence the only way to fish it is from a boat by casting in, toward the
rocks.
[64] Atkins, Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 675.
[65] Reported in Saltwater Sportsman for October 6, 1950.
[66] Yearly catch about 1880, some 8,000 pounds in the Sheepscot according to Atkins, Fish. Ind.
U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 716.
[67] Atkins (Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 700) reports one of 20 pounds, taken in
the St. Croix in a weir in 1880.
[68] What few bass were reported from Maine in 1919 were from the Kennebec (592 pounds) and from
Penobscot waters (57 pounds); bass have not been included in the fisheries statistics for Maine
for any subsequent years.
[69] Contrib. Canadian Biol. (1921) 1922, p. 63.
[70] Information from Dr. A. H. Leim.
[71] Goode, Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 1, 1884, p. 425.
[72] Saltwater Sportsman for July 6, 1951.
[73] According to Moore, Boston Herald, August 28, 1950.
[74] Information from Dr. A. H. Leim.
[75] According to Huntsman, Ann. Rept. Fishery Board Canada, (1949) 1950, p. 41.
[76] Vladykov and McKenzie, Proc. Nova Scotia Inst. Sci., vol. 19, 1935, p. 91.
[77] Information from Maj. Howard Scott of the Fishery Division of the Nova Scotian Department of
Trade and Industry, received through Henry Lyman.
[78] the most recent year for which detailed statistics are readily available.
[81] This is the most recent year for which information is available for Northumberland and Kent
Counties.
[82] Rapp. Gen. Ministr. Chasse et Pêch., Quebec, Pêcheries (1946-1947) 1947, p. 50.
[83] the reported catch for 1948-1949 was only about 1,800-1,900 pounds (17 quintals; See Rapp.
Gen. Ministr. Chasse et Pêch., Quebec, Pêcheries (1948-1949) 1949, p. 94).
[84] Adams, Field and Forest Rambles. 1873, Pt. 3, Fishes, p. 248.
[85] Atkins, Fish. Ind. U. S., vol. 5, Sect. 1, 1887, p. 693.
[86] Towne, State of Maine Striped Bass Survey, Maine Devel. Comm. and Dept. Sea and Shore
Fisheries, 1941 [approx. date], p. 14.
[87] Fishery Bulletin No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 17.
[88] Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, pp. 46-52
[89] This is the only year for which we have detailed information.
[90] Weston, Field and Stream, March 1932, p. 69.
[91] Moore (Boston Herald, Aug. 28, 1950) reports that bass are taken in traps from July on, in
the Cobequid Bay region.
[92] Huntsman, Ann. Rept. Fisheries Res. Board Canada, (1949) 1950, App. 2, pp. 41-42.
[93] Atkins, Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 693.
[94] Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 693.
[95] Property of the Pond Village Cold Storage Co., of North Truro, to whom we are indebted for
much information.
[96] Reported by Henry Moore, Boston Herald for Dec. 7, 1950.
[97] Report by Henry Moore, Boston Herald for Aug. 28, 1950.
[98] Trans. Litt. Phil. Soc. New York, vol. 1, 1815, pp. 502-504.
[99] the River Fisheries of Nova Scotia, 1867, p. 12.
[1] Fish. Ind. U. S., Sect. 5, vol. 1, 1887, p. 693.
[2] New Englands Prospect, 1634, p. 37.
[3] Wood, New Englands Prospect, 1634, p. 47.
[4] 1878—4,974 pounds; 1897—4,820 pounds; 1900—6,450 pounds.
[5] Statistics have been published for 1903 to 1910, 1919, and 1928-1930.
[6] Statistics published for 1929-1933, and 1935-1947.
[7] See Adams (Field and Forest Rambles, 1873, pt. 3, Fishes, p. 248), who described the Indians
of the Melicete Tribe as still spearing good-sized bass from their canoes in the St. John, in
1873.
[8] 2,000 pounds from the Cobequid-Shubenacadie region (Hants County), 700 pounds from Annapolis
County.
[9] To the nearest 1,000 pounds.
[10] No data for 1934.
[11] Tiller, Publ. 85, Chesapeake Biol. Lab., 1950, p. 24.
[12] For details, see Merriman, Fish. Bull. No. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service,vol. 50, 1941,
p. 10, fig. 4; p. 13, fig. 8.
[13] Assuming that about two-thirds of the catch of 28,700 pounds for Barnstable County came from
the outer shore of Cape Cod and from Cape Cod Bay, probably an under estimate.
[14] Reported catches for Massachusetts as a whole were about 62,500 pounds for 1939, about 75,700
pounds for 1940, about 99,500 pounds for 1943, no data available for 1941 or 1942.
[15] the broods of 1940-1942 were large, in Chesapeake Bay, though not as large as the brood of
1934 (Tiller, Chesapeake Biol. Lab., Pub. 85, 1950, pp. 13, 24-25).
[16] the minimum legal length for bass (snout to fork of tail) having been set in Massachusetts at
16 inches (fish 3-4 years old).
[17] Maximum reported catch for St. John River system for period 1922-1943, was 21,200 pounds in
1932.
[18] Average yearly catch, Nova Scotian rivers and coast of the Bay of Fundy was about 3,355
pounds for 1922-1930; about 12,600 pounds for 1932-1943; about 18,300 pounds for 1944-1946.
[19] Fish. Bull. 35, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1941, vol. 50, p. 14.
[20] Pub. 85, Chesapeake Biol. Lab., 1950, pp. 18, 28.
[21] 1944, $29,173; 1944, $34,643; 1945, $48,748; 1946, $34,643.
[22] No data are available for 1941 or 1942.
[23] About 15-35 percent for 1939, 1940, and 1943; about 5-11 percent for 1944, 1945, and 1946.
 Bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus) 1758
Striped Bass Roccus saxatilis (Walbaum) 1792
Summer flounder (fluke) Paralichthys dentatus (Linnaeus) 1766
Weakfish Cynoscion regalis (Bloch and Schneider) 1801
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