The food and game fishes of New York: . SEVENTH REPORT OK THE EUREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 15 to 20 Sand Launce from 3^ to 5 inches long. A few specimens were seined atBlue Point Cove, Great South Bay, and at Howells Point, in the same bay, August31, 1898. At Woods Hole, Mass., it comes in the spring, but is most numerous late in Sep-tember and till trap fishing ends. In October, 1895, a trap near Tarpaulin Covecaught 3,500 at one lift. These brought 10 cents each in New York. In spring andsummer the fish has no market value, but it sells in the fall. The name Hickory Shad is applied to t
The food and game fishes of New York: . SEVENTH REPORT OK THE EUREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 15 to 20 Sand Launce from 3^ to 5 inches long. A few specimens were seined atBlue Point Cove, Great South Bay, and at Howells Point, in the same bay, August31, 1898. At Woods Hole, Mass., it comes in the spring, but is most numerous late in Sep-tember and till trap fishing ends. In October, 1895, a trap near Tarpaulin Covecaught 3,500 at one lift. These brought 10 cents each in New York. In spring andsummer the fish has no market value, but it sells in the fall. The name Hickory Shad is applied to this species from the Chesapeake Bayregion southward, and in some Georgia rivers this is abbreviated to Hicks. In thePotomac and some other rivers tributary to the Chesapeake, the name Tailor Shadis applied to this fish. The Hickory Shad occurs from Maine to Florida, enteringrivers except in New England. The species is much less valuable than the shad, forwhich it is often sold by dealers. Nothing definite is known about its habits, but. HERRING. Marshall McDonald was of the opinion that it spawns in the rivers at a little earlierperiod than the shad, which it always precedes in the ascent of the streams in spring. 44. Branch Herring {Pomolohns pscudoliaroigus Wilson). C/iipea vcnni/is ]\^ & CiiLUERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 267, 1883; Bean, Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S., I, 588 ; Fishes Penna., 58, pi. 25, fig. 45, tyrauinii , N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 258, \)\. 13, fig. 38, 1842. The Branch Herring, River Herring, or Alewifc has a variety of additional is the Ellwife or Ellwhop of Connecticut River, the Spring Herring of New York,the Big-eyed and Wall-eyed Herring of Albemarle, the Sawbelly of Maine, the Gray-back of , the Gaspereau of Canada, Little Shad of certain localities, andthe Cayuga Lake Shad of New York. The recordctl range of the Branch Herring isfrom the Neuse River, N. C, to the Miramichi River, in New Brunswick, ascendi
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