THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 



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condition, was collected at station 3608. Bering Sea. This large specimen differs from currenl descrip- 

 tions in having the teeth not conspicuously arrow-shaped (a few are faintly so), and in having the inter- 

 orbital broad, 2 in eye, and not ridged. It gives the following measurements: Head 3.3 in length; 

 depth 2.8; eye 5.1 in head; snout 3.6; maxillary 1.6; mandible 1.5; pectorals 2.5; caudal lunate, its 

 length 1.65; dorsal 110; anal 86; gillrakers 3+11, roughish, strong, broad, and short, longest about 3 

 in eye; scales smooth to the touch, not firmly attached : head, premaxillary and mandible scaled. 



This species has been recorded (Bean, 1882) from Port Etches, off Afognak; off Popoff Island, 

 Shumagins, Bean ( 1884), Wrangell and Naha Bay. Gilbert (1895), from many stations north and south of 

 the Aleutian Islands and in Bristol Bay. Jordan & Gilbert (1899), Unalaska Scofield i 1899), Unga 

 and Karluk, and Chignik Bay. 



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Fig. 133.- Ilipjiii^iiissus hippoglossus (Limuwis). 



271. Hippoglossus hippoglossus ( I, iim.-iu- 1. Halibut. 



Halibut were often seen and wen' often taken with hook and line in various places. No specimens 

 were saved, but numerous examples \\ ere measured and weighed. The following table gives the results 

 and the important data concerning the examples 



a In the stomach of the 155-pound example were Found Cancer antt tvnarius, Fragment s of clam shells, backbone of a fish and 

 ;i large Btone with partly digested barnacles on it. The brain with part, of the skull of this example was saved; the brain 

 was very small, no Larger than 4 peas. 



6 The si i una eh of another example (from Cleveland Passage) contained 2 pollocks ( Theragra chah ogramma) ,2 anemones, 

 and a mi of gravel. Another I Pavlof Bay i had a < '• ratocottus diet rait* in its stomach. One caught at Killisnoo (the 75-pound 

 example! had about 6 large crabs in its stomach, and another l'mm I he same place contained a Ceratocottus diccraus. 



e Stomach contained Head of an Enophrys bison. 



-'Six large crabs in stomach. 



« About 200. 



In addition to the examples caugh.1 a few were seen swimming aboul a1 Uyak. Mr. John N. Cobb 

 reports having seen and helped weigh a1 Juneau in the summer of 1904 a 365-pound halibut. 



