. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. FIGURE 2. Photograph of deformed kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus). land. This specimen, then, represents one of the southernmost reported and the most distant from the mainland ever recorded. Another adult kelp bass (351 mm sl) was captured at lat 25° 43'N, long 113° 09'W in 13 fathoms of water on February 19, 1970, again aboard the H & M 85. The closest mainland point in this instance is 42 nautical miles. Discussions with Bobby
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. FIGURE 2. Photograph of deformed kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus). land. This specimen, then, represents one of the southernmost reported and the most distant from the mainland ever recorded. Another adult kelp bass (351 mm sl) was captured at lat 25° 43'N, long 113° 09'W in 13 fathoms of water on February 19, 1970, again aboard the H & M 85. The closest mainland point in this instance is 42 nautical miles. Discussions with Bobby "Wyer, captain of the It <& M 85, who has spent the last 19 years piloting sportfishing vessels below Cedros Island, stated that large kelp bass are infrequently taken from many of the rocky banks in Baja California, including Alijos Bocks. Kelp bass, therefore, appear infrequent visitors to or rare resi- dents of many of the offshore shallow rocky areas between Cedros Island and Magdalena Bay. Whether kelp bass breed in these areas or are simply expatriots from the mainland population is not known. The deformed specimen is deposited in the ichthyological collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, accession number S1071-153. Finally, we would like to thank Balph Miller, of H & M Landing in San Diego for allowing collection of specimens from his sportfishing boats. We are also indebted to Bobby Wyer, captain of the sportfishing boat, H & M 85, for giving assistance and information during collecting trips aboard his ship in Baja California waters. And, to Kobert Wisner, we would like to express our gratitude for the X-ray used in this communication. This work was partially supported by grants from the Marine Life Besearch Group, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (No. 1273) and the Southern California Coastal Water Besearch Broject (No. 02304).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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