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Common Name: yellow bass
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Pflieger (1975); Becker (1983); Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993).
Size: 46 cm.
Native Range: Lake Michigan and Mississippi River basins from Wisconsin and Minnesota south to Gulf; east to western Indiana and eastern Tennessee, and west to western Iowa and eastern Oklahoma. On Gulf Slope in lower Mobile Bay drainage, Alabama, and from Pearl River drainage, Louisiana, to Galveston Bay drainage, Texas (Page and Burr 1991).
Nonindigenous Occurrences: The yellow bass has been introduced into the Coosa River (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.), the upper Tombigbee River (Boschung 1992), the Cahaba River at Lake Purdy, and Inland Lake in the Black Warrior River (Mettee et al. 1996) in Alabama; the Salt and Gila Rivers in Arizona (Miller and Lowe 1967; Lee et al. 1980 et seq.); the Etowah River in Georgia (Burkhead et al. 1997); Illinois (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.); tributaries of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in Iowa (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.; Cross et al. 1986); non-specific areas in Kansas before 1885 (Cross 1967), and recently from Browning Oxbow on the Missouri River (Mosher, personal communication) and the Missouri River (Rasmussen 1998); several areas in Kentucky (Burr and Warren 1986); reported from Lakes Huron and Michigan, Michigan (Cudmore-Vokey and Crossman 2000); eastern lakes in Nebraska (Rasmussen 1998); the Tennessee River, Tennessee (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.); collected in Lake O' the Pines and Tawakoni reservoirs, Texas (Anonymous 1992) and Cedar Creek Reservoir (Anonymous 1994); and widely into Wisconsin (Helm 1958).
Means of Introduction: Yellow bass are intentionally stocked for sportfishing. They have gained access to the upper Tombigbee River through the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Boschung 1992). A recent collection from Browning Oxbow, Kansas, may be a result of migration from stocked Lake Icaria, Iowa (Mosher, personal communication).
Status: Reported as established in Arizona (Rinne 1995) and Wisconsin (Helm 1958). Stockings in Kansas in the late 1800s failed to produce sustaining populations (Cross 1967). However, yellow bass have more recently been collected from Browning Oxbow in Kansas (Mosher, personal communication). The status of the other introductions is unknown. This species was only reported in Michigan and is not likely established (Cudmore-Vokey and Crossman 2000).
Impact of Introduction: When stocked in the native range of the white bass M. chrysops these two species hybridize (Fries and Harvey 1989).
Remarks: None.
Anonymous. 1992.1991 Angler Recognition Entries - Freshwater. Texas Parks & Wildlife News (January 24, 1992). 5 pp.
Burr, B. M., and M. L. Warren, Jr. 1986. A distributional atlas of Kentucky fishes. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission Scientific and Technical Series 4. 398 pp.
Cross, F. B. 1967. Handbook of Fishes of Kansas. State Biological Survey and University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publication 45, Topeka, KS.
Cudmore-Vokey, B. and E.J. Crossman. 2000. Checklists of the fish fauna of the Laurentian Great Lakes and their connecting channels.
Helm, W. T. 1958. A "new" fish in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin 23(7):1-3.
Lee, D. S., C. R. Gilbert, C. H. Hocutt, R. E. Jenkins, D. E. McAllister, and J. R. Stauffer, Jr. 1980 et seq. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, NC.
Miller, R.R. and C.H. Lowe. 1967. Part 2. Fishes of
Page, L. M., and B. M. Burr. 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. The Peterson Field Guide Series, volume 42. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.
Rasmussen, J.L. 1998. Aquatic nuisance species of the
Rinne, J. N. 1994. The effects of introduced fishes on native fishes: Arizona, southwestern United States. World fisheries congress, May 1992, Athens, Greece.
Other Resources:
Distribution in Illinois - ILNHS
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 4/19/2006 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Morone mississippiensis. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=785> Revision Date: 4/19/2006
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