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U. S, BUREAU OF FISHERIES 

 FRESH-WATER FISHERY PRODUCTS 



Common name 



Other common names 



Scientific name 



Bass, calico. _. 



Bass, rock 



Bowfin 



Buffalofish _-. 



Bullhead 



Carp 



Cisco 



Lake herring-. 

 Muskellunge_. 

 Perch, yellow. 



Pickerel 



Pike, blue 



Pike, yellow-. 



Red horse 



Sauger 



Sheepshead 



Smelt 



Spoonbill cat- 

 Sturgeon 



Sucker 



Sunfish 



Tullibee 



Trout, lake.-. 



Whitefish 



Frog... 



Strawberry bass. 

 Dogfish 



Catfish 



German carp. 



Jack, grass pike, pike. 



Yellow 



Redfin, sucker. 



Fresh-water drum. 



Padcilefish-II- 



Mulletlim"--^ 



Pomoxis sparoides. 

 Ambloplites rupestris. 

 Amintus calvus. 

 Idiobus cyprinella. 

 Ameiurus sp. and Ictalurus sp. 

 Cyprinus carpio. 

 Leucichthys sp. 

 Leucichthys sp. 

 Esox masquinongy . 

 Perca flavescens. 

 Esox sp. 



Stizostedion vitreum. 

 Stizostedion vitreum. 

 Moxostoma sp. 

 Stizostedion canadense. 

 Aplodinotus grunniens. 

 Osmerus sp. 

 Polyodon spathula. 

 Acipenser rubicundus. 

 Catostomidse sp. 

 Centrarchidse sp. 

 Leucichthys tullibee. 

 Cristivomer namaycush. 

 Coregonus albus. 

 Rana sp. 



SALT-WATER FISH MARKET 



FlQ. 13.- 



-Percentage of each class of fishery products 

 received at Fulton Fish Market 



Fresh and frozen salt- 

 water fishery products, of 

 which there are 79 varie- 

 ties, approximating 280,- 

 000,000 pounds of fish and 

 54,000,000 pounds of bulk 

 shellfish per annum, are 

 shipped to the New York 

 salt-water fish markets. 



There are 63 wholesale 

 dealers who make a speci- 

 alty of handling fresh and 

 frozen salt-water fishery 

 products. These firms cater 

 to all nationalities, selling 

 their products at a quoted 

 market price. A majority 

 of the firms sell only fish, 

 others fish and shellfish, and 

 still others only shellfish. 



PRODUCTS HANDLED 



Important commercial species. — Twenty-four species of fresh and 

 frozen salt-water fish and shellfish constitute about 70 per cent of 

 the total volume of sales. The following table shows tne form in 

 which the important commercial salt-water species are mainly 

 received : 



