. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of fish (Coregonus Clupeiformis ^litchill), the FrostFish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), and the Sault Whitefish (Coregonuslabradoricus). Investigation has disclosed that the true whitefish is abottom feeder, as also that the depth at which it occurs most abundantlyis 10-35 fathoms. This range is that occupied by the fish during eight or nine monthsof the year, and is, therefore, undoubtedl
. Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of fish (Coregonus Clupeiformis ^litchill), the FrostFish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), and the Sault Whitefish (Coregonuslabradoricus). Investigation has disclosed that the true whitefish is abottom feeder, as also that the depth at which it occurs most abundantlyis 10-35 fathoms. This range is that occupied by the fish during eight or nine monthsof the year, and is, therefore, undoubtedly its main feeding grounds. Itis likewise the area over which commercial fishing operations liav(^ beencarried on profitably at other times than during the migrations of thefish. In discussing, then, the common or true whitefish it becomes atonce apparent that the area available to this fish is com]>ara1 i\cly is probably true that young wliitefish of less than ]i | lbs. are to becaught in depths of water ranging from 20 feet up, but as these are im-mature fish and consequently unsuited for commercial purposes, thisfact docs not materially affect <1h question of avnilnblc whiieMsli kind permission of Mr. Paul Reighard, University of Michigan.
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