44 EINAR LÖNNBERG, (Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 



Fishing at South Georgia. * 



During the sojourn at South Georgia a great deal of fishing was done and, it 

 must be said, with great success. Long hnes were laid in Cumberland Bay usually 

 in a depth of 70 to 100 m. and on clayey bottom. The hooks were chiefly baited 

 with pieces of fish, sometimes with molluscs. Two or three lines each with lOO 

 hooks were laid and when drawing the lines a fish was found on 70 percent of the 

 hooks or more. Xototlienia macrocepliala iiiannorata and Tronatoiuns /ianso>n 

 eeonrianus were most numerous. Next to them in number was Notothenia s;ibbcri- 

 frons, and not a few Miirœnolepis were also caught. In the harbour in Boiler Har- 

 bour a great number of fishes were caught on hook and handlines in a depth of 6 to 

 10 m., mud bottom. The two first mentioned species were also here most common. 

 The "South Georgia pickerel" {Paracliœniclithys georgianus) delivered also its tri- 

 bute to the kitchen although some of the sailors declared it to be "too ugly to be 

 fit to eat". Notothenia gibberifrons was caught here as well, but no specimens of 

 Murœnolepis, which, at least when adult, lives in deeper water. 



All fishes mentioned were white in the meat and regarded as very palatable. 



Fishes from the true Antarctic region. 



In the introduction has been set forth the reason why the present author re- 

 gards the South Shetland Islands, Graham Land and neighbouring islands, lands and 

 seas as truh- antarctic and this need not to be repeated here. But with this defini- 

 tion of the Antarctic region its fauna has received b)- this Expedition an addition 

 of importance. Seven species are recorded in this chapter. Three of these (T^/vw/rt- 

 tomus nczonesi, Nototlienia nicolai and Pleiirogrannna) were already described as Ant- 

 arctic and recorded from Victoria Land by BOULENGER. The others are new to the 

 Antarctic region, but two of them, although, as it seems, racially different, have been 

 described from Kerguelen Land. The sixth species is just described in this report 

 from South Georgia, and the seventh is entirely new although related to a species 

 found at South Georgia. It is very remarkable that as far as has been found hitherto, 

 the fauna of the South Shetland — Graham Land region has no fish in common with 

 that of Tierra del Fuego, but shows more affinities with the fauna of subantarctic 



* After the commuuicatiùns of Mr. K. .\. .Vndeusson. 



