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Excerpt from Atlantic Coastal Striped Bass: Road to Recovery Fish hatched in a particular year are called a year class. Production of juvenile striped bass varies considerably from year to year. When production is exceptionally high, the fish produced are termeda dominant year class. For striped bass, the occurrence of dominant year classes has resulted in record harvests in subsequent years. This factor is thought to have sustained the fisheries during the years of poor production throughout this century. While there appears to be both a 6 to 8 year and a 20 year periodicity of dominant year classes in striped bass, they are not always strongly pronounced. As striped bass are long - lived fish, females from a dominant year class can contribute as spawners for many years. Growth and Development: Age and growth of fishes are of considerable interest to both scientists and anglers. Many factors, such as available food supply and environmental conditions, influence a fish's length and weight at a given age. There are some differences in the weight of male and female striped bass of the same age. Males are usually smaller than females at a given age. Fish weighing more than 30 pounds are usually females. 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.