. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. FISHES OF THE GULF OF MAINE 383 It is a bottom fish, living on mud or sand and confined to considerable depths of water. Normally 25 to 30 fathoms is its upper limit, but the fact that the Grampus specimen just mentioned was taken in a tow net, though close to bottom, proves that it sometimes rises from the ground. Nothing is known of its life history or of its breeding 147. Arctic eelpout (Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt) Jordan and Evermann, 1896-1900, p. 2465. Description.—Thi
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. FISHES OF THE GULF OF MAINE 383 It is a bottom fish, living on mud or sand and confined to considerable depths of water. Normally 25 to 30 fathoms is its upper limit, but the fact that the Grampus specimen just mentioned was taken in a tow net, though close to bottom, proves that it sometimes rises from the ground. Nothing is known of its life history or of its breeding 147. Arctic eelpout (Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt) Jordan and Evermann, 1896-1900, p. 2465. Description.—This fish resembles the eelpout in its general appearance and in the arrangement of its fins. The readiest field mark for it is that the dorsal fin is not interrupted, but together with the caudal and anal forms one continuous fin extending around the tip of the tail, and that it originates behind the base of the pectoral instead of in front of it, while the fanlike pectoral fins are even larger, relatively, than those of the eelpout. Furthermore the upper jaw projects far beyond the lower, giving it a distinctive cast of countenance (compare fig. 192 with fig. 190). The most obvious difference between this Lycodes and the wolf eel (p. 382) is that the former is much the stouter and less elongate of the two, being only about 8 times as long as deep, whereas the wolf eel is 12 or 13 times as long; and the dorsal fin of Lycodes reticulatus originates farther forward—that is, close behind the base of the pectoral instead of over the tip of the latter. Fig. 192.—Arctic eelpout (.Lycodes reticulatus) Color.—Described as brownish, with a network of black lines on the head and several groups of such lines or solid dark bands on the body. The dorsal fin is dark edged. The young fry are marked with a series of large dark spots on the back and extending out on the dorsal Size.—-Maximum length about 22 inches. General range.—Greenland and Spitzbergen and both sides of the
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