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THE LAKE TTHITE FISH. 



THE LAKE WHITE FISHES, AND THE SMELTS. 



Of venison Goldsmith may wittily sing, 



A very fine haunch is a very fine thing ; 



And Burns, in his tuneful and exquisite way, 



The charms of a smoky Scotch haggis display ; 



But 'tis often much harder to eat than descant. 



And a poet may praise what a poet may want ; 



Less doubt there shall be 'twixt my Muse and my dish 



While her powers, I invoke in the praise of White Fish. 



Henky R. Schoolcraft. 



'T^HE White-fish of the Great Lakes, Coregoniis clupeiforviis is a well 

 known fish which has numerous representatives in the lakes of the 

 Great West, all of which will necessarily come into prominence as the 

 country becomes more densely populated, and all of which will doubt- 

 less in time come under the attention of the fish culturist, though none 

 of them are of any especial interest to the angler. 



Coregonus cbipeiformis (Mitchill) INIilner, as has been said, is the most 

 important of its family. It inhabits the Great Lakes and British America, 

 and is replaced in Alaska by C. Hic/iardsonii. This species has been 

 artificially reared, and widely distributed beyond seas, and is one of the 

 most important market fishes of the Upper Mississippi Valley. 



Next in rank is the G?r^^^«^z/J ^r/<?^// almost universally known as the 

 "Lake Herring." The name "Cisco" is also often applied to it, 

 especially about the smaller lakes, and in many regions also the name 



