REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 157 



Food: Like that of the cod, but more largely of invertebrates (Goode). 



Fishes like dinners and herrings, crustaceans, annelids, molluscs, and 



echinoderms. 

 Rate of Growth: In the North Sea, larva 1-5 to \ inch long (5.5 to 8.5 



mm.) found in April; larvae ^ to 2 4-5 inches (11.25 to 43 mm.) in 



June and July. Adult reaches a length of nearly three feet. 



References: 



1885: Cunningham, Quart. Jour. Micro. Sci., Vol. 26, 2. 

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

 822. 



1893 

 1896 

 1897 

 1897 

 1897 

 1909 



Holt, Sci. Trans. Roy. Soc, Dublin, V, 51. 

 Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XVI, 177. 

 Brice, Report, U. S. Fish Com., XXIII, 222. 

 McIntosh, Report, Fishery Board, Scotland, 15, 196. 

 McIntosh and Masterman, British Marine Food Fishes, 245 . 

 Ehrenbaxjm, Nordisches Plankton, 10, 219. 



183. Urophycis regius (Walbaum). King Hake; Codling. 



Geog. Dist. : Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras, but nowhere common. 

 Found most frequenth^ in the neighborhood of Long Island. In 

 Maine reported off Seguin Island, (Kendall, 1908); in Massachusetts 

 at Woods Hole (Smith, 1898); in Connecticut from Long Island Sound, 

 (Lindsley, 1844); off Stratford, Middle Ground, off Faulkners Island, 

 . (Kendall, 1908). 



Season in R. I.: From September to November; not common, but is 

 sometimes taken in traps in the southern part of Narragansett Bay. 

 Specimens taken in 155 fathoms of water off Newport by the "Fish 

 Hawk," September, 1880. 



Habitat: Deep water. 



Size: Average about ten inches. 



184. Urophycis tenuis (Mitchill). White Hake; Hake; Squirrel Hake. 



Geog. Dist. : Banks of Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras, abundant north- 

 ward in deep water, reaching a depth of 304 fathoms. 



Season in R. I.: April to November, not so common as the Red Hake 

 (Urophycis chuss). 



Reproduction: Probably spawns in winter or early spring. Young 

 specimens found in the shells of Pecten tenuicostatus, off Watch Hill, 

 September, 1874 (Goode). 



