Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - NOAA

6 FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
In. 1915 the greatest catch, in the history of the fishery waa made, when 1,784,448
pounds of striped bass were delivered to the markets. Since the World War the
annual catch has varied between 500,000 and 1,000,000 pounds. The Division of
Fish and Game of California has made thorough studies on the life history of the
striped bass, as well as the conservation needs of this species. These have been published
in a long series of papers from 1907 to the present, of which the outstanding
publication is that by Scofield (1931). But, because the conditions of the fishery on
the Pacific coast differed so much from those on the Atlantic coast, much of the
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information presented by the Division of Fish and Game of California cannot be
applied to the striped bass of the Atlantic. On the Pacific coast the mam method of
capture was by gill net, and it was easy to eliminate the capture of small fish by
regulating the mesh size. At the present time commercial fishing for striped bass is
prohibited in California. On the Atlantic coast, however, pound-nets, semes, and
other methods of capture are used, and striped bass are taken indiscriminately with a
great many other species—a situation which would make it highly impractical and
most unfair to the commercial fishermen involved if any attempt were made to control
the size categories of striped bass taken in these nets by regulating the mesh size.
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