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AMERICAN FISHES. 



In 1S79 Haddock were successfully hatched, under the supervision of 

 Mr. Earll, at the Gloucester station of the United States Fish Commission. 



The Haddock is now very highly esteemed as a food fish, having grown 

 in favor during the last twenty years. It is especially desirable for boil- 

 ing or for making chowders, and is a great favorite in Boston, while in 

 Philadelphia enormous quantities are yearly consumed. Being well 

 adapted for preservation in ice, great numbers of them are distributed 

 through the interior of the country, together with the Codfish. The suc- 

 cess with which the Scotch method of smoking Haddock has been intro- 

 duced into this country has also greatly increased the demand for them, 

 and " Finnan Haddies " are manufactured in enormous quantities in Port- 

 land and Boston. At Provincetown a Haddock salted and dried after 

 being split is called by the name " Skulljoe," or '• Scoodled Skulljoe." 



THE BURBOT. 



The Cusk, Brosmius brosmc, is a deep-water species, inhabiting rocky 

 ledges in the North Atlantic. It has not been observed south of Cape 

 Cod, but ranges northward to the banks of Newfoundland and of Green- 

 land. It occurs in Iceland and Spitzbergen and along the entire length 

 of the Scandinavian Peninsula, but is not known on the coast of German v, 

 while Faber states that it just touches the most northern part of Denmark 

 at the Scaw in Jutland, and that it is occasionally taken in the Frith of 

 Forth and brought to the Edinburgh market. It is also plentiful about 

 the Faroe Islands. Its range in the Western Atlantic is from latitude 42 

 to latitude 65 °, or beyond ; in the Northeastern Atlantic to latitude So°, 

 and south to latitude 55 . 



The Massachusetts fishermen tell me that these fish are usually found in 

 considerable abundance on newly-discovered ledges, and that great num- 

 bers may be taken for a year or two, but that they are soon all caught. 

 Sometimes, after a lapse of years, they may be found again abundant on a 

 recently-deserted ground. From these facts it has been reasoned that the 



