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Biiibot or losb Lota mnculosa. (Fresh water.) 



Lycodes Turnerii. (jMarine.) 



Sciilpiu Cottns polj'acantboceplialus. (Marine.) 



" tijeuiopterus. (Marine.) 

 " humilis. (Marine.) 

 Hexagrainnuis asper. (Marine.) 



Launce Ammodytes americanus. (Marine.) 



Pike Esox lucius. (Fresh water.) 



Smelt Osmerns dentex. (Marine.) 



Capelin Mallotus villosus. (Marine.) 



Smelt Hypomesus olidus. (Fresh water.) 



Whiteflsh Coregonus Artedi. (Fresh water.) 



" Laurettit. (Fresh water.) 



" JMerkii, subsp. (Fresh water.) 

 " clupeiformis. (Fresh water.) 

 " Kennicottii. (Fresh water.) 

 " quadrilateralis. (Fresh water.) 



Grayling .Tbymallns signil'er. (Fresh water.) 



Trout Salvelinus malnia. (Fresh water.) 



Salmon Oncorhyncbus chouicha. (Fresh water.) 



" keta. (Fresh water.) 



" nerka. (Fresh water.) 



" kisutch. (Fresh water.) 



" gorbuscha. (Fresh water.) 



Herring Clupea mirabllis. (Marine.) 



Sucker Catostomus longirostris. (Fresh water.) 



Lamprey Ammocoetes aureus. (Fresh water.) 



According to Mr. L. M. Turner, the lamjirey is very abundant at Aiivik and is used for food. 

 Although the Ingaliks, or the people of the great interior, are omitted here, they have an 

 abundance of salmon and wbitefish in the Upper Yukon and the Tananah. 



KOKTON SOUND DIVISION. 



lu the region embracing the coast of the Sound from Saint Michael's upward and as far as 

 Sledge Island, Mr. Petroff reports six hundred and thirty-three inhabitants. The fishes, of 

 course, are about the same as those mentioned iu the Yukon division and need not be repeated. 

 There is one very important fi.shery, the tom cod or wachna fishery, which is characteristic of the 

 region, and should be described in detail. This has already been done by Mr. Dall iu the 

 following terms : 



"This fish much resembles the common tomcod of the Eastern States, . . . but, while tlie 

 latter is of most insignificant importance from its scarcity and poor quality, the former si^ecies 

 occupies a very important place in the domestic economy of both natives and Pussiaus on both 

 shores of Bering Sea. It is ai>parently a permanent inhabitant of these coasts, but is most 

 abundant iu the fall of the year, when the ice begins to form in the rivers and along the shores. 

 The Waukhui fishery commences about the middle of October. At first it is caught from boats 

 anchored close inshore, but later the natives cut holes in the new ice, set up two or three stakes, 

 with a mat hung upon them to keep oft" the wind, and sit there all day, liauling them in as fast as 



