Archive image from page 800 of The depths of the ocean. The depths of the ocean : a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic depthsofoceangen00murr Year: 1912 GENERAL BIOLOGY 747 belonging to the large edible types of pelagic fishes known Geographical ' ' ' distribution of young fish. from the coast banks, such as the mackerel, but our preliminary <'stribution examination has not revealed many of these. At Station 42 one young individual belonging to the genus Scomber was tak
Archive image from page 800 of The depths of the ocean. The depths of the ocean : a general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic depthsofoceangen00murr Year: 1912 GENERAL BIOLOGY 747 belonging to the large edible types of pelagic fishes known Geographical ' ' ' distribution of young fish. from the coast banks, such as the mackerel, but our preliminary <'stribution examination has not revealed many of these. At Station 42 one young individual belonging to the genus Scomber was taken, but this station is not far from the Canaries. The only young belonging to larger fishes of any economic importance taken by us in great numbers were those of the Saury pike {Scovibresox satLrus; see Fig. 541) and of the horse mackerel [Caraiix trachurus). The young of both these forms have obviously a wide distribution, occurring abundantly in the open ocean even at the greatest possible distance from the coast ; the eggs of Scombresox sauriis were taken in the Sargasso Sea. The list of pelagic fishes in Chapter IX. shows that the majority were taken on our southern track, which agrees with the results of previous expeditions. Liitken says in his Spolia Fig. 541. Scombresox saiirus, Walb. Nat. size, cm. Atlantica that the young of Scovibresox were the most numerous fishes in his collections from the open Atlantic, having been obtained from no less than ninety different localities situated in two belts between latitudes ii° or 12 and 40' on both sides of the equator. They are typical surface forms, distinguished by a dark-blue colour on the back, while the sides are silvery and mirror-like. They pass through a typical metamorphosis, like the young of the gar-pike, the long jaws appearing only at a more advanced age (see Fig. 542, reproduced from Liitken). Related to Scombresox is the genus Exocoehts, which includes the typical flying fishes; I have indicated in Chap
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