The food and game fishes of New York: . als have been reported. Spawning takes place inSunapee Lake on reefs in shallow water, and not in the streams tributary to thelake ; the season is about the same as for the Brook Trout. The colors of the malein the breeding season are gorgeous, and the sight of a host of spawning fish in thewater is one to be remembered. Many large and small trout of this kind have been deposited in Lake Georgeand other suitable waters of the State. 71. Smelt; Ice Fish (Osuicms iiiordax Mitchill). At!ieiina iiiordax Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 446, 1815,
The food and game fishes of New York: . als have been reported. Spawning takes place inSunapee Lake on reefs in shallow water, and not in the streams tributary to thelake ; the season is about the same as for the Brook Trout. The colors of the malein the breeding season are gorgeous, and the sight of a host of spawning fish in thewater is one to be remembered. Many large and small trout of this kind have been deposited in Lake Georgeand other suitable waters of the State. 71. Smelt; Ice Fish (Osuicms iiiordax Mitchill). At!ieiina iiiordax Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 446, 1815, New viridcicciis DkKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 243, pi. 39, fig. 124, streams flowing into Long Island Sound, Hackensack and Passaic Iiiordax Bean, Fishes Penna., 64, pi. 26, fig. 46, 1893; Jordan & Evermann Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 523, 1896, pi. LXXXVI, fig. 228, 1900; Evermann & Kendall, Rept. U. S. Commr. Fish & Fisheries for 1894, 593, 1S96, Lake Mem- phremagog and Lake SMELT. The Smelt is known along our east coast from Labrador to Virginia. It prob-ably extends still farther north, but the record of W. A. Stearns, published in theProceedings of the National Museum for 1883, p. 124, the most northernlocality known at present. He found the Smelt common in August in shoal wateroff the wharves of Cape Breton. In Pennsylvania the fish is common in the springin the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. In numerous lakes of Maine, New Hamp-shire, and other New England States, the Smelt is common landlocked, and thrivesas well as in the salt water. DeKay knew the Smelt as a marine species ascending the Hackensack andPassaic Rivers. The species occurs also in Lakes Champlain and the former lake it reaches a large size. At Port Henry, N. Y., the fish is calledIce Fish. 352 SEVENTH RErOKT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. The up[)cr parts are greenish; abroad silvery band along the sides ; body andfins with nume
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