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Excerpt from Tolerance of Striped Bass and American Shad to Changes of Temperature and Salinity
The greatest mortality of adult fish usually occurred during the second to the fifth day after transfer, while the greatest mortality of juveniles occurred within 24 hours after transfer. The longer period of survival of adults compared to that of juveniles may have been due in part to their larger size. Huntsman and Hoar (1939) found that, in young salmon, the larger the fish the longer it survived high salinity. The authors concluded that with increase in size young salmon became more resistant to sea water to the degree to which the exposed surfaces, through which the sea water must act, became less in proportion to the mass of the body, in particular, the blood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
