76 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Season in R. I.: Arrives in the spring; specimens are common from 

 August first to November. April 30, 1906, Dutch Island trap; August 

 8, 1906, Goose Neck trap, half a dozen specimens; September 24, 1906, 

 West Passage traps, half a dozen specimens; August 27, 1905, Sand 

 Blow trap, two specimens; October 9, 1905, Sand Blow trap; also 

 taken on August 10, September 11, October 2. 



Repkodtjction: The location of the breeding grounds is uncertain. Some 

 authorities say that this species does not ascend rivers to spawn ; others 

 maintain that it spawns in fresh water under the same conditions as 

 shad. 



Food: Small fishes, Crustacea, squids. 



Size: Maximum, 24 inches. 



41. Pomolobus pseudoharengus (Wilson). Alewije; Branch Herring; River 

 Herring; Buckie. 



Geog. Dist.: Atlantic coast of the United States. Nova Scotia to Vir- 

 ginia. 



Migrations: Arrives off Virginia and Maryland about March 1. Said 

 to arrive at Cape Cod about April first, a month before the scup. 



Season in R. I.: This is one of the first fish to arrive in the spring, the 

 traps at that time sometimes being full of them. Comes in March, 

 running up into fresh water through March, April, and the first of May. 

 After that, in May and June, a few stragglers are taken on their way back 

 to salt water. The dates of their arrival in Taunton River, kept by 

 Mr. Elisha Slade, from 1871 to 1883, show that their earliest appearance 

 during that time was February 28, 1880, and the latest, March 28, 1875- 

 April 16, 1906, Dutch Island trap, 1,700 specimens; April 30, 1906, 

 Sand Blow trap, 1,200 specimens; September 24, 1906, West Passage, 

 traps, a few specimens. 



Reproduction: Spawns during March and April in fresh water. Young 

 taken all summer. (Bean). The eggs are 1-20 inch in diameter, 

 adhesive, and deposited in shoal water. At hatching, the larvse are 1-5 

 inch long (5 mm.). (For description of eggs and young, see Ryder, Re- 

 port of U. S. Fish Com. XIII, 1885, 505, and Prince, Further Con- 

 tributions to Canadian Biology, 1907, 95; also Brice, Report U. S. Fish 

 Com. XXIII, 1897, 186.) 



Food: Minute free-swimming crustscea. Sometimes young squids and 

 small shrimp. 



Rate of Growth: The young hatched from the eggs in the spring, become 

 three or four inches long before winter. August 8, 1908, specimens 



