Figure 5.--A big haul of spiny dogfish. sutioD 9-3. 



Hypsicometes. Hyp»icometes gohioides Goode. 

 Sta. 10-2, 1; and 10-3, 1 specimen. 



HypoclydoTaa., Hypoclydonia bella (Goode and 

 Bean), Sta. 5-6, 1; and 4-5, 3 specimens. 



Lowe's polymixia, Polymixia lowei Gunther. Sta, 

 4-7, 1; and 6-5, Z specimens. 



Herrings 



Round herring, Etntmeus sadina (Mitchill). Sta. 

 6-3, 600+; 7-2, 8; and 7-4, 500+. See figure 6 

 and remarks under bluefin tuna. 



Herring, Clupea harenffus Linnaeus. Sta. 10-5, 11 

 specimens. 



Alewife, Pomolobui pseudoharengus (Nilson). Sta. 

 1-6, 4; and 10-6, 5 specimens. 



Blueback, P«molobus aestivalis (Mitchill). Sta. 

 4-2, 1 specimen. 



Sh3.d, Alosa sapidissima (Wilson). Sta. 4-3, 1; 

 and 5-7, 2 specimens. 



Hakes 



Silver hake, Merlucciua bilinearis (Mitchill). Col- 

 lection data listed on fishing transect profiles. 



American hake, Merluccius albidu* (Mitchill). 

 Collection data listed on fishing transect pro- 

 files. This fish has been called the "offshore" 

 hake by Bigelow and Schroeder (1955). It ap- 

 pears to be very closely related to another 

 Merluccius species in the eastern Atlantic called 

 the European haike C/l/. (neriucettt* J. Since there are 

 already nnany species of hakes in our offshore 

 waters, we feel that American hake is to be 

 preferred as a vernacular name. 



If our interpretation of the echo sounder traces 

 is correct, both this species and M. bilinearis must 

 be very common in the offshore middle Atlantic 



