440 



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kin Bay, while gill-netters made large catches in Muscongus Sound and the outer 

 part of Penobscot Bay toward the end of the period, but that spawning haddock 

 have never since approached this part of the coast in numbers sufficient to support 

 any extensive fishery or to provide the hatchery with more than a few eggs. 



Spawning haddock have also been reported to us from the neighborhood of 

 Mount Desert Island and off Cutler, while we found a few cod-haddock eggs near 



Fio. 217.— Localities where haddock or cod-haddock eggs were taken from February to June during the years 1913, 1915, 

 and 1920. Op less than 100; 6. more than 100 per station 



Petit Manan Island on April 12, 1920, 5 but there is no reason to suppose that any 

 considerable body of haddock ever breed along the Maine coast east of Mount 

 Desert, nor on the northern side of the Bay of Fundy, where neither eggs, larvae, 

 nor young fry have ever been seen. However, our capture of a few haddock eggs 6 

 and others in the younger "cod-haddock" stage (p. 443) in Petit Passage on June 



1 In a previous report (Bulletin, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. LXI, 1917, p. 258) I recorded 

 eggs taken along this part of the coast in June as "cod-haddock," but fresh examination of the material shows that they might 

 equally have belonged to the witch flounder (p. 515), none hp.ing suificientlv advanced in incubation to show the pigment. 



6 Far enough advanced to show the pigment in its distinctive arrangement. 



