THE PERCHES 



catching and disposing of them amounted to two 

 thousand two hundred dollars in six weeks. It 

 has now been decreed in Vermont, that unless the 

 Province of Quebec stops issuing licenses for seine 

 fishing in Lake Champlain, Vermont will also issue 

 them, and in that case, the inevitable result will 

 be to exhaust the supply of this splendid game and 

 good fish in the waters of Lake Champlain. 



A varietal form of the pike-perch called the sau- 

 ger or sand pike [Stizostedion canadense) is found 

 in the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence waters, and 

 in those of New England. It is represented largely 

 by a sub-species (Stizostedion canadense griseuni) y 

 its subspecific name being from the Latin, griseus, 

 " gray," which is more numerous and more widely 

 distributed than the typical sauger, canadense. It is 

 a smaller fish and less valued as food than Stizostedion 

 vitreum, the patriarch of the tribe, and can be distin- 

 guished from the head of the genus by the smoother 

 head-bones and gill-covers, the fewer spines on the 

 latter, and the less complete scaling of the head. 



The yellow perch (Perca flavescens, " dusky " and 

 " yellowish") is probably caught in greater numbers 

 with hook and line than any other fish of New 

 England waters, in all of which that are suitable 

 for their sustenance, they may be said to be ubiqui- 

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