Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - NOAA

STUDIES ON ТНЬ STRIPED BASS OF TECE ATLANTIC COAST 37
extreme example of this is that of a bass that bore tag No. 197, which was seined,
tagged, and released in June in the Niantic River. This bass was caught in a trap
in Niantic Harbor in July and released, caught on a rod and line in the Niantic River
in September by the author and released, and caught and released again while seining
for tagging purposes in the Niantic River in early October. Returns from tagged
striped bass first indicated that a migration to the south was starting in late October,
CAPE HATTCRAS
POPULATION AT
NIANTIC REMAINED
STATIONARY DURING
THE SUMMER MONTHS
SPRING MIGRATION
TO THE N. E.
FALL MIGRATION
TO THE S W.
MIGRATION ROUTES OF TAGGED
STRIPED BASS
1936
I . i i i i i i i i l i i i i
NAUTICAL MILES
FIGURE 26.—Chart of the Atlantic coast showing the migrations of striped bass as determined by the returns from 1,397 individuals
tagged from April through October 1936 (see table 17).
when two fish tagged in the Thames River were recovered in the Niantic. Although
these fish had only moved about 10 miles, they were the first that had ever been
taken to the south or west of the original point or release. Almost immediately
thereafter bass that had been tagged in Connecticut waters during the summer began
to be caught in large quantities in the pound-nets at Montauk, Long Island, N. ** т