. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE WHITE EISHES AND THE SMELTS. 491 than a foot, and a weight of about a pound. It is common in the market of Salt Lake City, and sometimes comes into the San Francisco market. It spawns in October and November, running from the lakes into the small streams for this purpose. As a food-fish it ranks well, being similar to its Eastern relative, C. qiiadi-ilateralis. The ''Blue-fin" or "Black-fin," Co7'egonus nigripiniiis, has thus
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE WHITE EISHES AND THE SMELTS. 491 than a foot, and a weight of about a pound. It is common in the market of Salt Lake City, and sometimes comes into the San Francisco market. It spawns in October and November, running from the lakes into the small streams for this purpose. As a food-fish it ranks well, being similar to its Eastern relative, C. qiiadi-ilateralis. The ''Blue-fin" or "Black-fin," Co7'egonus nigripiniiis, has thus far been taken only in the deeper waters of Lake Michigan, and in deep lakes near Madison, Wis. At times it comes in considerable numbers to the Chicago market, but it is in general a rare species. It reaches a much larger size than the Lake Herring, which it very closely resembles in general appearance. The " Inconnu " of the French trappers and voyageurs of the far north, is the Stenodus Mackenzii, which inhabits the Mackenzie river and its tri- butaries, Yokon and Kowak rivers, Alaska. It is a food-fish of great value, said to reach forty pounds in weight. The habits of the Coregoni are little understood. The publications of the Fish Commission will give all that is of record, and also a full history of wdiat has been done in their artificial propagation. ^^^'^^''''^^r:!. THE SMELT. The Smelt, Osmerus niordax, is found along our Atlantic coast from Virginia to the Gulf of Saint'Lawrence. The northern limit of its range has not been precisely defined, although it is known to be extremely abund- ant along the northern shores of New Brunswick. It is also found in many of the fresh-water lakes of Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, where they have become land-locked, and in some instances, as in Belgrade Lake, Maine, seem to have rather been improved in size and flavor by the change from salt to fresh water. The Wilton Smelt of AVilton Pond, Kennebec County, Maine,
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