. The food and game fishes of New York: . is time the fishfauna of Lake Erie was very little known. 298 .SEVKNTIl RKIUKT UK TlIK IUKKSl, MSIl ANU (lAMK COMMISSION. Tliis fish grows to a IciiLjtli of 15 inches and a weight of 2 pounds. It spawns , and its food consists of algie, conferxa-, dcsmids and diatoms. With itsfood it takes large quantities of mud, from which it separates tlie organic substancesafter swaUowing. This is a beautiful species, somewhat resembling the shad in gen-eral appearance, and has been very successfully kept in the aquarium where itsbright colors and graceful
. The food and game fishes of New York: . is time the fishfauna of Lake Erie was very little known. 298 .SEVKNTIl RKIUKT UK TlIK IUKKSl, MSIl ANU (lAMK COMMISSION. Tliis fish grows to a IciiLjtli of 15 inches and a weight of 2 pounds. It spawns , and its food consists of algie, conferxa-, dcsmids and diatoms. With itsfood it takes large quantities of mud, from which it separates tlie organic substancesafter swaUowing. This is a beautiful species, somewhat resembling the shad in gen-eral appearance, and has been very successfully kept in the aquarium where itsbright colors and graceful movements make it attractive : but its flesh is soft, taste-less and seklom eaten when any better can be obtained. In most regions fishermenconsider it <i great nuisance and throw away their entire catch. Negroes eat themud shad from tributaries of the Chesapeake, and in Florida the fish has been util-ized to some extent in making guano. The name (iiz/.ard Shad alludes to the formof the stomach, which is very much like that of a inZZAKI) SHAD. 41. Sea Herring yClupca liarcngus Linn^EusX Clupea harciii^iis Jordan i\: (;ii,i;KKr, Hull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 265, 1883: Bean, 19th Re])t. N. Y. Conini. ]ish., separate, 42, pi. .WH, 32, fIo)ii^ata , N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 250, 1842. The Sea Herring is the most important food fish of the world and it isundoubtedly the most abundant of all the fishes. Its food consists of smallinvertebrates, chiefly copepods and the larv;i; of worms and mollusks. It formsthe most important food of manj of our valuable food fishes, including the cod,haddock, halibut, blucfish, and a great many others. Herring spawn at two seasons,spring and fall, the first spawning continuing from April to June and the secondseason between July and December. The eggs are adhesive and are deposited on the?bottom, where they adhere to seaweeds and other objects of support. The egg isabout /lo inch in diameter. The hatching period lasts from 1
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