122 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Food: Voracious feeders, eating fishes, moUusks, and Crustacea (Goode, 



loc. cit.)- 

 Rate OF Growth: Largest ever taken weighed 112 pounds. Young found 



in June one inch long; in October these reach 4i-inches (Goode). 

 References: 



1882 

 1885 

 1897 

 1905 



Aggassiz, a., Proc. Amer. Acad. XVIII, 274. 

 Ryder, Report, U. S. Fish Com., XIII, 502. 

 Brice, Report, U. S. Fish Com., XXIII, 185. 

 Ehrenbaum, Nordisches Plankton, 4, 17. 



131. Morone americana (Gmelin). White Perch. 



Geog. DiST.: Atlantic coast. South Carolina to Nova Scotia. Common in 

 fresh and salt water along the whole New England coast. 



Season in R. I.: Present the year around. Taken in traps in the Bay in 

 October. Found in Mashapaug and Cunliff Ponds, Pawtuxet River, 

 and in streams and ponds generally in the southern part of the State. 

 Also found at Block Island. October 29, 1905, a specimen was taken 

 in Dutch Island trap. 



Habitat: Shallow shore waters, brackish and fresh water of rivers and 

 ponds connected with salt water. Sometimes land-locked. 



Reproduction: SpawTis in April, May, and June, in fresh water. The 

 eggs are 1-34 inch in diameter (.73 mm) and very adhesive. They sink 

 to the bottom and hatch in six days in water of 51° to 53°. (See Ryder, 

 Report, U. S. Fish Com., XIII, 1885, 518; Brice, Report, U. S. Fish 

 Com., XXIII, 1897, 185.) 



Food: Shrimp, fish spawn, insects, crabs, small fishes, and eels. 



Rate of Growth: At the time of hatching, the larva is about 1-11 inch 

 in length (2.3 mm.); in the first day it grows to ^ inch (3 mm.). The 

 adult grows to eight inches. 



133. Epinephelus nlveatus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Snowy Grouper. 



Geog. Dist.: Brazil to West Indies, often straying north to Cape Cod. 



The first specimens recorded from Woods Hole were taken in 1895; 



eight or ten other specimens recorded in the vicinity in the same year; 



two of these were 2f and 1^ inches long; others taken in 1897 and 1900. 



All of these were taken between August and October, were under three 



inches, and mostly taken in lobster pots (Smith, 1898). 

 Season in R. I.: Two young specimens, two inches long, taken by Samuel 



Powell at Newport, 1860 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1861, 98). 



Goode and Bean report the capture of another specimen at the same 



