110 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Reproduction: Spawns in May in the English Channel; from June to 

 August in the North Sea. The egg is 1-25 inch in diameter (.84 to 1.04 

 mm.), with segmented yolk and an oil globule. The larva at hatching 

 is 1-10 inch (2.5mm.) long. (Egg and young are described by Ehrenbaum 

 Nordisches Plankton, 4, 1905, 27.) 



Food: Feeding habits, like blue-fish (Bean, 1903). 



Size: One foot. 



99. Trachurops crumenophthalmus (Bloch) . Big-eyed Scad; Goggler. 

 Geog. Dist.: Both coasts of tropical America, straying north to Nova 



Scotia. Two specimens taken at Canso in fish- traps by Cornish (1907). 

 Reported from Woods Hole (Baird, 1873; Bean, 1880; Smith, 1898), 

 where it is common every year from October fifteenth to November 

 fifteenth. Common in all tropical seas and abundant in the Caribbean 

 seas in winter. Taken the fall on Long Island shores (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: Common in October and November (Prof. Jencks). 

 Specimen from New^jort in the U. S. National Museum. (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1880, 84.) 



Rate of Growth: Most northern specimens are from four to six inches 

 long. The adult reaches a length of about two feet. 



Food: Annelids, shrimp, small fishes. 



100. Caranx hippos (Linnaeus). Crevalle; Jack. 



Geog. Dist.: Warm seas, both coasts of tropical America, north to Gulf 

 of California and Cape Cod, also found in East Indies. Taken at LjTin 

 Beach (Wheatland, 1852; Goode and Bean, 1879) and at Woods Hole 

 (Baird, 1873 ; Bean, 1880 ; Smith, 1898) . Abounds in Gulf of Mexico and 

 East Florida and occurs throughout the West Indies. 



Season in R. I.: Occasionally taken from July to November. Specimen 

 from Ne^q^ort in U. S. National Museum (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 

 90). Several specimens taken in West Passage during August and 

 September of 1906. Usually associated with C. Crysos, but not so 

 numerous as that species. September 24, 1906, specimen. West Passage 

 trap. 



Food: Fishes like mullet and menhaden; Crustacea. Feeds in shallow 

 water near the shore. 



Rate of Growth: Largest are two feet long. Young one inch long are 

 taken at Woods Hole about July first. In Great Egg Harbor, N. J., 

 small individuals are common in summer. Specimens from four to 

 six and one-half inches taken at Ocean City and Longport late in Au- 

 gust. The adult reaches about three feet and weighs thirty pounds. 



