Surf Smelt; Pond Smelt 



Surf Smelt 



Hypomesus pretiosus (Girard) 



This smelt attains a length of a foot and is found on the 

 coast of California and Oregon from Monterey northward, usually 

 abundant and spawning in the surf. A firm-fleshed and fat little 

 fish of delicious flavour, scarcely inferior to the eulachon. 



Colour, light olivaceous; a silvery band along the lateral line. 



Pond Smelt 

 Hypomesus olidus (Pallas) 



This delicious and excellent little food-fish is abundant on 

 both coasts of Bering Sea southward to Japan and the Aleutian 

 Islands. It spawns in fresh-water ponds, and is exceedingly 

 abundant about St. Michaels. From the surf smelt, which it 

 closely resembles, it is distinguished by its higher fins, the 

 longest dorsal ray being only 6 in body; pectoral reaching f dis- 

 tance to ventrals, their length 5 in body; ventrals 6 in body. 

 Colour, dusky, little transparent. 



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