156 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND I'ISHERIES. 



Food: Feeds on all marine animals smaller than itself . Fishes: molluscs, 

 crustaceans, echinoderms, etc. Many specimens of lobsters have been 

 found in the stomach of the cod ; a five-inch lobster was found in the 

 stomach of a cod taken off Nantucket, November 1, 1900. The very 

 young feed exclusively on copepods (Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 

 XVI, 1896, 177). 



Rate of Growth: At Woods Hole young, ^ to 1 inch in length, are 

 seined in March. These leave about June 15, 3 or 4 inches in length. 

 Schools of young about two inches long were seen April 23, 1906. In 

 Massachusetts the rate of growth of the cod has been shown to be as 

 follows: specimen 11 to 3 inches long are about six months old; those 

 9 to 13 inches are H years old; those 18 are Ih year old; and those 

 22 inches long are 3h years old. The largest cod ever recorded from 

 New England weighed 21 H pounds, and was over six feet long; taken 

 in a trawl in May, 1895 (Brice, 1897). 



References: 



1873: Sars, Report, U. S. Fish Com., Ill, 213. 

 1877: Sars, ibid, V, 612. 



1878: Earll, Report, U. S. Fish Com., VI, 685. 

 1882: Ryder, Report, U. S. Fish Com., X, 455. 

 1885: Ryder, Report, U. S. Fish Com., XIII, 489. 

 1890: McIntosh and Prince, Trans. Roy. Soc, Edinburgh, XXXV, 

 812. 



1897 

 1897 

 1897 

 1901 

 1909 



Brice, Report, of U. S. Fish Com., XXIII, 193. 

 McIntosh, Report, Fishery Board, Scotland, 15, 194. 

 McIntosh and Masterman, British Marine Food Fishes, 236. 

 Masterman, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 40, 1. 

 Ehrenbatjm, Nordisches Plankton, 10, 224. 



183. Melanogrammus aegleflnus (Linnreus). Haddock. 



Geog. Dist.: North Atlantic, south to France and North Carolina; in 



deep water to Cape Hatteras. 

 Season in R. L: Taken in Narragansett Bay (R. I. Fish Com., 1899). 



Sometimes taken in East Passage in cold weather. Off Block Island 



(Collins and Rathbun, 1887). 

 Reproduction: Spawning season is from February to May. The egg 



is buoyant, non-adhesive, without an oil globule; 1-17 inch (1.19 to 



1.67 mm.) in diameter. The larva newly hatched is I inch (4 mm). 



in length. 



