Pleasant Grove Review | 1939-06-09 | Page 3 | Wildlife Federation Works to Protect black Bass

Wildlife Federation Works to Protect Black Bass The National Wildlife federation reports a steady increase in laws protecting America's most popular game fish, the black bass. In all but five states, there is a closed season on the small-mouth and large-mouth bass. Thirty-eight states prohibit the sale of black bass. In 1937 a federal law was enactad prohibiting the interstate shipment of black bass illegally caught. A vote in all of the states gave the bass first place as the sportsman's choice among 1939 Wildlife Week stamps. It is pointed point-ed out that black bass do not spawn until water conditions are suitable, and that the male bass guards the nest until the spawn hatch. While the nest is guarded, the male fish is in poor condition, is easily caught, and his capture means the destruction destruc-tion of the eggs. Full protection until the spawn is hatched is highly necessary to the welfare of the various vari-ous members of the bass family, which includes bluegills, crappy, sunfish and rockbass.