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The fact that wo have taken the pelagic young of this species in our tow nets 

 at many localities distributed over the whole northern part of the Gulf, both in 

 deep water and in shallow (even Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island), 

 instead of concentrated in shoal water in the southwest corner as is the case with 

 larval gadoids (p. 437) and flatfish, is sufficient evidence that rosefish breed in- 

 differently wherever found and do not gather in special localities for this purpose. 



Fig. 142.— Localities where larval rosefish have been taken in the tow net. O. less than 100; •, 100 or more. 



The rosefish, unlike most of the fishes producing buoyant eggs, breeds successfully 

 in the Bay of Fundy, the pelagic larva? of this species having been found at the 

 mouth of the bay and for some distance up the center during the late summer. 70 



We have only one record of very young rosefish on Georges Bank. Indeed, 

 we have found very few anywhere south of a line from Cape Cod to Cape Sable 

 (fig. 142), but the presence of gravid females on the bank (p. 308), together with 

 the local abundance of large fish there, suggests that it is none the less an important 



10 Huntsman, 1922a. 



