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channel, on Georges Bank, and on the outer part of the shelf off southern New 

 England, and though we have not been able to obtain definite data as to its 

 status on Browns Bank, it probably visits the latter also. It occurs in such multi- 

 tudes in Massachusetts Bay and on the sandy shores of Cape Cod that millions are 





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Fig. 194. — Silver hake {Mtrluccius bilinearis) 

 a, Adult. 6, Egg. c, Larva, 6.5 millimeters, d, Larva, 11 millimeters, f, Fry, 23 millimeters 



taken in the local weirs every summer, and some idea of the present-day abundance 

 of this fish along our shores may be gained from the fact that in 1919 the shore 

 fisheries reported 687,970 pounds in Maine and more than 13,000,000 pounds (at 

 least 7,000,000 fish) in Massachusetts, which was but a fraction of the actual total 



