A CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FISHES FROM THE 



BERING AND CHUKCHI SEAS 



1 . Introduction 



The basis for the present work is the numerous collections of the Government 

 Hydrographical Institute (GGI) and the Pacific Scientific Institute of Ichthyology 

 (TIRH) made by the trawlers DALNEVOSTOTCHNIK ("Far East") (1932) and riie 

 KRASNOARMEIETZ ("Rpd Army") (1933). V Those expeditions were fortunate 

 enough to cover a network of stations m the East and North Bering Sea and all 

 Chukchi Sea. The tJALNEVOSTOTCHNIK made about 100 hauls in 61 stations 

 that were in the Southern Chuckchi Sea, Bermg Strait, off St. Lawrence Id... near 

 the moutii of the Yukon, Anadyr Gulf, along the coasts of Koriak Land (N. W. 

 Kamchatka), Bering Island and the opposite coast of Kamchatka and Avacha Bay, — ' 

 in depths chiefly from 20 to 235 meters. The deeper hauls (to 3860 meters) 

 were fewer, made primarily with a dredge and Sigsby trawl. In 1932 about 1500 

 examples of fish were collected, chiefly by beam and otter trawls, some by 

 Sigsby trawls and dredges and a few by special pelagic and planktonic nets (a 

 total of 57 hauls had fish). While stationed at the coast observations were also 

 made. In 1933 the ichthyologist K.I. Panin on the KRASNOARMEIETZ collected 

 1700 examples from 45 stations concentrated in Anadyr Gulf, Bering Sea, near 

 St . Law^nce Id . , and in the Chukchi Sea to the latitude of Wrangle Island . In 

 addition to these basic materials, some other collections were used (from the 

 Commander Ids . made by Kardakov and Rostov brothers, a few collections m 

 Leningrad of the TIRH expeditions. There were two specimens of sardine -ivasi 

 K. I. Panin collected in Kamchatka, etc,). 



In studying the material, comparisons were made with the collections from 

 the far East and North Sea in the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences 

 of the SSSR. 



The collection contained 108 species of which 12 were new species and 

 subspecies (ca. 11%) and only one new genus; part of the following list was 

 published m other works (see footnoltes) . 



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The 1932 collections were made by the author, in 1933 by K. I. Panin. 



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See maps of 1932 and 1933 stations in G. E. Ratmanov's work on the 



"Hydrography of Bering and ChukcM Seas" in this symposium. 



