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specimens. In 1937, round herring appeared in 

 numbers at Campobello Island, N. B., at the 

 mouth of Passamaquoddy Bay (Bigelow and 

 Schroeder, 1953, p. 88). During August and 

 September 1952, it was common in the Gulf of 

 Maine along the coast as far east as Digdequash, 

 N. B.; Scattergood (1952a and 1953) estimates 

 that at least 210,000 pounds were landed. The 

 fish was again present along the Maine coast dur- 

 ing the summer of 1953. 



Atlantic lizard fish (Synodus foetens). Re- 

 ported as relatively abundant in southern New 

 England in the summer of 1949 (Arnold 1951). 

 This fish is rare north of South Carolina (Breder 

 1948). 



Striped mummichog, or killifish {Fundulus 

 majalis). A resident population has become 

 established in Great Bay, N. H. (Jackson 1953). 

 This fish was not recorded in Great Bay until April 

 1950, although records of the fishes of this region 

 have been kept since 1908 (Jackson 1922). (See 

 p. 340.) 



Striped mullet {Mugil cephalus). Jackson 

 (1953) reports 14 taken at the mouth of Oyster 

 River in Great Bay, N. H., between October 4 and 

 18, 1951. Bigelow and Schroeder (1953, p. 306) 

 state that mullets are common as far north as New 

 York, less so to Woods Hole, but so rarely do they 

 stray past Cape Cod that there are only a half 

 dozen records of them in the Gulf of Maine — each 

 based on an odd fish. 



Sea horse (Hippocampus hudsonius). Two 

 specimens were reported from the Maine coast in 

 October 1953 (J. B. Glude, personal communica- 

 tion). The specimens were collected by G. W. 

 Coffin. The first specimen was obtained from a 

 lobster fisherman at Kennebunk, Me., who found 

 it in a lobster pot; the second was found clinging 

 to a lobster-pot buoy rope at Pumpkin Ledges out- 

 side Boothbay Harbor on October 18, 1953. The 

 specimens were identified by Dr. Roland Wigley 

 and are on file at the Woods Hole Laboratory of 

 the Fish and Wildlife vService. Bigelow and 

 Schroeder (1953, p. 316) state that— 



The sea horse is not common much beyond New York- 

 Only a few are found each year about Woods Hole, chiefly 

 in July, August, and September, and they so rarely stray 

 past the elbow of Cape Cod that we have found only one 

 definite (Provincetown) and one dubious (Massachusetts 

 Bay) record of its capture in the inner parts of the Gulf of 

 Maine, dead or alive, and one record for Georges Bank. 



Frigate mackerel {Auxis thazard). Was re- 

 ported in great numbers in the vicinity of Point 

 Judith, R. I., in August 1949 (Arnold 1951). 

 Landings are reported for Massachusetts and 

 Rhode Island for the years 1945 to 1950 and for 

 the Middle Atlantic States for 1948 to 1950. 

 Sumner, Osburn and Cole (1913b, p. 749) state 

 that the fish is apparently rare in the vicinity of 

 Woods Hole; Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) do not 

 list it in the Gulf of Maine fauna. The capture 

 of one specimen in a fish trap at Barnstable in 

 Cape Cod Bay (F. J. Mather III, personal com- 

 munication) in 1954 apparently is the first record 

 of this fish north of Cape Cod. 



Striped bonito {Eufhynnus pelamis). One 

 specimen was obtained from a fish trap at Barn- 

 stable in Cape Cod Bay in 1954 (F. J. Mather 

 III, personal communication). The only previous 

 record in the Gulf of Maine is for Provincetown 

 in 1880 (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953, p. 336). 



Little TUNA {Euthynnus alletteratus) . Between 

 200 and 300 captured in a trap at Barnstable in 

 the autumn of 1948 (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953, 

 p. 337) and 28 were taken from a trap in Cape 

 Cod Bay in September 1949 (Schuck 1951a). 

 These are first records for this fish in the Gulf of 

 Maine. 



Common bonito {Sa>-da sarda). Scattergood 

 (1948) reports a 310-mm. specimen collected from 

 a herring weir on the southeast side of Campobello 

 Island at the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay, 

 thus establishing a new record for the Gulf of 

 Maine. 



Tuna {Thunnus thynnus). Although the tuna 

 is a regular visitor to the Gulf of Maine, the young 

 fish seem to have entered the southwestern part 

 of the Gulf in much greater numbers during the 

 past few summers than previously, although the 

 local stock of large adults has not shown a corre- 

 sponding increase. 



King mackerel {Scomberomonis regalis). This 

 southern fish was once described as "not very 

 common on our Atlantic coast" (Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, 1896). Although sporadic in the statistics 

 of landings for the Middle Atlantic States since 

 1877, it has appeared in the landings with increas- 

 ing frequency in recent years. It is reported in 

 Middle Atlantic States landings for the years 1931, 

 1933, 1937, 1946, and 1948 to 1954. The species 

 is not reported from any of the New England 



