Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga12_1926cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 63 six pounds in the following October." (U. S. Bur. Fisheries Mem- orandum. ) SIZE ATTAINED. According to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the largest striped bass records are of several taken at Edenton, North Carolina, each of which weighed 125 pounds. One taken at Orleans, Massachusetts, weighed 112 pounds. Such a fish would measure at least six feet in length.
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Fig. It). A striped bass weighing 62i pounds caught in the Napa River by William "West September 11, 1911. This is the largest fish recorded for the Napa River. Photograph by William West. although the Individuals of 60 and 70 pounds are not uncommon, average is probably not over four or five pounds. Mr. George Neale, former executive officer of the Fish and Game Commission, saw and weighed a striped bass in a San Francisco market that tipped the scales at 78 pounds. The dealer told him that two days before he had one weighing 82 pounds. This was about 1910. The fish shown in the accompanying photograph, the largest bass ever caught in Napa River by hook and line, was taken by William

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