. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- United States. Wall-eyed Pike; Pike-perch This genus contains 2 species, large, carnivorous fishes of the fresh waters of North America, highly valued as food and ranking among our most interesting and important game-fishes. .. Pyloric coeca 3, of nearly equal length, and each '^^bout as long a^ the stomach ' -^ a a. Pvoric coeca s'to iVa of them much shorter than the stomach, ^!he othfrs smalle/and va


. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- United States. Wall-eyed Pike; Pike-perch This genus contains 2 species, large, carnivorous fishes of the fresh waters of North America, highly valued as food and ranking among our most interesting and important game-fishes. .. Pyloric coeca 3, of nearly equal length, and each '^^bout as long a^ the stomach ' -^ a a. Pvoric coeca s'to iVa of them much shorter than the stomach, ^!he othfrs smalle/and variable canadense, 3^3. Wall-eyed Pike; Pike-perch Stiiostedion vitreum (Mitchill) This important fish is a species of wide distribution. It is found from Lake Champlain westward throughout the Great Lakes region and to Assiniboia. It is native also to the small lakes of New York and the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, east of the Alleghenies In the Mis- sissippi Valley it occurs in many of the larger streams and small lakes as fir south as Georgia and Alabama. Though found in many streams, it is preferably a fish of the lakes, and it reaches its greatest abundance in the Great Lakes, particularly in Lake Erie. In different parts of its range it is known by different names. Among the Great Lakes it is called the wall-eyed pike, yellow pike, dore or dory by the French-Cana- dians, and pickerel in places where the true pike {Esox luaus) is found In the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, and in the small lakes of northern Indiana, it is known as salmon or jack salmon, names absurd and wholly without excuse. Southward in the Mississippi Val ey it is the jack. Elsewhere it is called okow, blowfish, or green pike. In the Great Lakes, particularly in Lakes Erie and Ontario, the young of a 361. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemb


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