3IO SEVENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



well-known fish, the reader is referred to the complete history of the American 

 Menhaden by Dr. G. Brown Goode. 



The Menhaden comes into Gravesend Bay in May and through the summer. 

 Occasional individuals are seen there in the fall as late as November. The fish 

 can be kept alive in winter in captivity^ provided the water temperature does not 

 fall below 50 F. It makes its appearance on the shores of Long Island about the 

 beginning of June, sometimes in May, and remains till the cold season sets in. A 

 few specimens were taken September 22 in Blue Point Cove in 1884, and October i. 

 1890, many thousands were caught in a trap at Islip ; these were large and very fat 

 fish. The use of the Menhaden as a bait fish is too well known to need special 

 mention. In "chumming" for Bluefish near Fire Island Inlet this is the favorite 

 bait. In 1898 the young were obtained at Duncan's Creek, Howell's Point and 

 Nichols's Point August 29. Adults were sent from Islip by W. F. Clock August 18. 



In the vicinity of Woods Hole, Mass., according to Dr. Smith, Menhaden arrive 

 in schools about May 20, but scattered fish are taken in March with Alewives ; they 

 remain till December i, sometimes till December 20, but are most abundant in June. 

 When the schools first arrive, the reproductive organs of many of the fish are in an 

 advanced stage of development, but after July i, none with large ovaries are found. 

 Late in fall the fish again have well-developed roes. The smaller fish are about an 

 inch long ; these are found in little schools about the shores and wharves as early as 

 July 15. The young are abundant throughout summer and fall. The average 

 length of adults is 13 or 14 inches; one fish 18 inches long was caught at Woods 

 Hole in 1876. 



48. Striped Anchovy (Stolephorus brownii Gmelin). 



Clupea vittata MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 456, 1815; DEKAY N. Y. 



Fauna, Fishes, 254, 1842. 

 Stolephorus brownii JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 273, 1883; BEAN, 



Bull. U. S. F. C., VII, 149, 1888; Kept. N. Y. Comm. Fish., 279, 1890. 



The species occurs from Cape Cod southward to Brazil and the West Indies. 



This is the Satin Striped Herring of Mitchill's Fishes of New York, p. 456. By 

 some of the fishermen in Great South Bay it is supposed to be the Whitebait, and is 

 so called. The Anchovy was extremely abundant in the bay in September, 1884. 

 I found it at the mouth of Swan Creek, in Blue Point Cove, near the Life Saving 

 Station, at Oak Island and at Fire Island. Specimens were seen as late as October 7. 



This Anchovy forms a very important part of the food of the young weakfish 

 and bluefish in Great South Bay. It is present in very large numbers and could be 



