. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. BIGELOW & SCHROEDER : OFFSHORE HAKE AND BLUE WHITING 217 1953. These have been compared with a poutassou about 224 mm. in standard length in the Museum of Comparative Zoology from Nice, France, and 3 others 270 to 401 mm. long, from Bergen and Christiania, Norway, in the U. S. National Museum, loaned to us through the kindness of Dr. Leonard Schultz. The illustra- tion (Fig. 3) and the preceding table (VII) are added so that the reader may judge, first-hand, as to the correctness of our identification:. Fig. 3. Ga
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. BIGELOW & SCHROEDER : OFFSHORE HAKE AND BLUE WHITING 217 1953. These have been compared with a poutassou about 224 mm. in standard length in the Museum of Comparative Zoology from Nice, France, and 3 others 270 to 401 mm. long, from Bergen and Christiania, Norway, in the U. S. National Museum, loaned to us through the kindness of Dr. Leonard Schultz. The illustra- tion (Fig. 3) and the preceding table (VII) are added so that the reader may judge, first-hand, as to the correctness of our identification:. Fig. 3. Gadus (Micromesistius) poutassou, 387 mm. long, from Lat. 42°08'N, Long. 65° 27'W, taken in 250-280 fathoms. It has been known for many years that the range of poutassou in the eastern Atlantic extends from the Mediterranean to Ice- land and northern Norway, and from the coastline out across the continental slope. Schmidt (1909, pp. 83-84) has pointed out, also, that the localities where its early stages were taken during the cruises of the "Thor" locate its spawning grounds as near the 550 fathom line, or even deeper still. And since it has been reported recently from the Julianehaab district, West Green- land (Jensen, 1948, p. 182) the "Cap'n Bill II" captures of it off Georges and Browns Bank are not astonishing. The number of specimens reported so far from the western side of the Atlantic has not been large enough to show whether we are dealing with stragglers, only, as seems true of the European ling (Molva molva) recently reported by Templeman and Fleming (1954, p. 11) from the southwestern part of the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, or whether a permanent popula- tion exists in the western side of the Atlantic. "We are inclined to favor the second alternative, for it does not seem likely that the number of strays crossing the Atlantic would be large enough. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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