The food and game fishes of New York: . s small tubercles on the scales of the sides above and below the lateralline. TUli lUUU AND GAMK FISHES OF NEW VORK. 51. Common Whitefish {Corri^v/N/s clupcifoDiiis MitchiH). CorciTo/ii/s al/iiis Kirtlanh, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., Ill, 477, pi. XXVIII, fig. 3, 1841 ; , N. V. Fauna, Fishes, 247, ]il. 76, iig, 240, clupdfonnis Jorjian iv: Gili;ert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 299, 1883 ; Bean, Fishes Penna., 67, color \)\. 3, 1893 ; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 465, 1S96, ]il. LXX\I. fig. 202, 1900. The name Whitcfi
The food and game fishes of New York: . s small tubercles on the scales of the sides above and below the lateralline. TUli lUUU AND GAMK FISHES OF NEW VORK. 51. Common Whitefish {Corri^v/N/s clupcifoDiiis MitchiH). CorciTo/ii/s al/iiis Kirtlanh, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., Ill, 477, pi. XXVIII, fig. 3, 1841 ; , N. V. Fauna, Fishes, 247, ]il. 76, iig, 240, clupdfonnis Jorjian iv: Gili;ert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 299, 1883 ; Bean, Fishes Penna., 67, color \)\. 3, 1893 ; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 465, 1S96, ]il. LXX\I. fig. 202, 1900. The name Whitcfish is thoroughly identified with species and is seldomvaried except by means of the common or lake. A well-marked varietyin Otsego Lake, N. Y., has long been known as the Otsego Bass. The Common Whitefish occurs in the Great Lakes and northward into BritishAmerica; its northern limit is not definitely known. In Alaska, where the specieswas formerly supposed to , it is replaced by a similar, but well-marked form,. COMMOX the Corcgoiins richardsoiii of Gunther. The variety known as Otsego Bass is foundin Otsego Lake. If we may judge from the yield of the fisheries, Lake Michiganhas more Whitefish than any of the other lakes; Superior ranks second ; Erie third;Huron fourth ; and Ontario is sadly in the rear. The largest individual on record was taken at Whitefish Point, Lake Superior ;it weighed 23 pounds. A 17-pound specimen was caught at Vermilion, in LakeErie, in 1876. The size varies greatly with locality, ranging in general all the wayfrom 1.^4 pounds to 14 pounds. In Lake Erie, in 1S85, the average weight wasbetween 2 and 3 pounds. The length of adults will average 20 inches. There is a movement of the Whitefish in many lakes from the deep water earlyin the summer into the shoal water near the shore. In the mid-summer, however,the usual retreat of this species is the deep and cold parts of the lakes which theyinhabit. Again as the spawning sea
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