PLANKTON OF THE GULF OF MAINE 



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hatch or the resultant larvae survive. The researches carried on during the past 

 few years at the Canadian Biological Laboratory at St. Andrews point unmistakably 

 to the conclusion that few if any floating eggs of any groups of animals hatch success- 



Fig. 34. — Locality records for buoyant flounder (pleuronectid) and gadoid eggs combined (a dot for each record of each 



species), 1912 to 1922 



fully in certain parts of the Bay of Fundy, this being particularly true for chretognaths 

 and fishes (Huntsman, 1922; Huntsman and Reid, 1921). As evidence of the un- 

 suitability of the bay as a breeding ground for fishes with buoyant eggs, Huntsman 



