REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 159 



of the Wickford Experiment Station. Specimen 28 mm. taken July 

 26, 1907; specimen 4 mm. taken July 8, 1908. May 30, 1910, 14 

 specimens taken in seine, Cornelius Island, averaging 66 mm., ranging 

 from 47 to 90 mm. 



186. Enchelyopus cimbrius (Linnaeus). Four-bearded Rockling. 



Geog. Dist.: North Atlantic on both coasts, south in deep water to the 

 Gulf Stream. Common in the deep waters of Massachusetts Bay. 

 Taken by the "Albatross" and "Fish Hau-k" off southern New Eng- 

 land, in depths from 7 to 724 fathoms. 



Season in R. I.: Specimens taken by " Fish Hawk " in Narragansett Bay 

 at a depth of 12^ fathoms (Goode and Bean, Ocanic Ichthyology, 1895, 

 384). Young specimens from Newport are described by A. Agassiz. 



Reproduction: Si^awning season is from February to August. The egg 

 is 1-33 to 1-25 inch (.66 to .98 mm.) in diameter and has an oil globule. 

 The newly hatched larva is 1-12 inch long (2 mm.). (Ehrenbaum.) 



Rate of Growth: Young from ^ to 1^ inches taken at the Fish Com- 

 mission Wharf at Woods Hole from June 27th to July 6, 1900. Speci- 

 mens ten inches long taken in Eel Pond at Woods Hole, January 5th, 

 1889; a second specimen has been taken in Little Harbor in winter 

 (Sherwood and Edwards, 1901.) Adult grows about a foot long. 



References: 



1882: Agassiz, A., Proc. Amer. Acad. XVII, 294. 



1885: Agassiz, A., and Whitman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. XIV, 39. 



1890: Brook, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, Edinburgh, X, 157. 



1893: Holt, Sci. Trans. Roy. Soc, Dublin, V, 95. 



1897: McIntosh and Masterman, British Marine Food Fishes, 284. 



1909: Ehrenbaum, Nordisches Plankton, 10, 280. 



187. Brosme brosme (Mailer). Cusk; Ling. 



Geog. Dist.: North Atlantic, south to Long Island and Denmark; north 

 to Iceland and Spitzbergen. Rare south of Cape Cod. 



Habitat: Deep water, inhabitating rocky ledges. 



Season in R. I.: Specimen taken off Newport, November, 1898. 



Reproduction: Spawns during April, May, and June. Eggs 1-20 inch 

 in diameter (1.2 mm. to 1.5 mm.) with an oil globule. The larva on 

 hatching is ^ inch long (4 mm.). (For description of eggs and young, 

 see Ehrenbaum, Nordisches Plankton, 10, 1909, 292. Mcintosh and 

 Masterman, British Marine Food Fishes, 1897, 299. Mcintosh, 

 Report, Fishery Board of Scotland, 10, 1892, 288.) 



