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ACCORDING to Jack Hoffman, Chief of the Virginia Game Commission’s Fish Division, more than one-half million striped bass fingerling from 11/2 to 3 inches were stocked in Virginia waters during the months of July and August of 1973. Of the total more than 334,000 fingerlings were reared at Virginia hatcheries. The balance of the fish stocked were fingerlings received from other sources. These sources originally had received striped bass fry from the Commonwealth and, after raising the fish to fingerling size in a reciprocal rearing agreement, returned them for stocking in Virginia lakes.
The basic Virginia striped bass stocking plan calls for 10 fish per surface acre of water. This was carried out in all of the 12 lakes stocked with the exception of Smith Mountain Lake which received 15 fish per acre. Smith Mountain Lake was chosen to receive the larger number of fish per acre as part of a two-year-long experiment. Part of that study is currently going on at Smith Mountain in the form of an intensive reservoir survey.
THE LAKES which received the striped bass fingerling included: Smith Mountain, (293,925); Claytor Lake (45,000); 2 Powhatan Lakes (806); Lake Burton (966); Carvin’s Cove (6,500); Leesville Lake
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