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133. Rosefish ; Norway Haddock (Sfljastcs marimis Linnseus). 



Sebastes iioi-vegicus DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 60, pi. 4, fig. 11, 1842, off New York in 

 deej) water; Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 38, pi. VII, fig. 1, 1867. 



Sebastes mariniis Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 260, pi. LXIX, fig. 248, 1896 ; Jordan 

 & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1760, 189S, pi. CCLXVIII, fig. 653, 1900. 



Orange red, nearly uniform, sometimes a dusky opercular blotch, and about five 

 league dusky bars on back. Peritoneum brownish. 



The Rosefish is abundant at the hundred-fathoms line off the south coast of 

 New England, and has been found in depths of 180 fathoms. It breeds abundantly 

 in late summer at these depths, and there is no reason to beHeve that the young rise 



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to the surface. The fry were caught by the bushel in the trawl net of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission steamer FIsJl Haivk. ■ 



The species was originally described from Norway by Linnaeus. Cuvier had 

 specimens from Miquelon, Newfoundland. Day mentions a number of localities of 

 its capture about the British Isles, but it is rare south of Faroe Islands. It occurs 

 on the southwest coast of Spitzbergen, and on the Norwegian coast it is found 

 everywhere from Christiana around to the Varanger-Fiord. It also occurs in 

 Greenland, and from Labrador, as a sliore form, as far south as Cape Cod, antl in 

 deeper water as far south as New Jersey. 



In the Woods Hole region it was taken on the shore on December 20, 1895, in 

 Great Harbor. .Seven or eight specimens, 3 inches long, were found in a hole ou a 

 flat, where they had been left by the tide; four or five of these had been stranded 

 and were dead ; the others were alive when captured. Fishermen claim that they 



