1082 r. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



would admit fish from another stream which flows into the harbor 

 at Nain. 



The most abundant of shore fishes in Labrador were the rock cod 

 {Gadiis 0(/ak) and sculpins {Aiicanthocottus grmnlandious). 



The rock cod is of inferior quality, quickly softening after death, 

 and then difficult to clean. However, when freshly caught and soon 

 cooked it is by no means unpalatable. 



The common cod is abundant in deeper Avater, 



The '' fresh water cod " of Labrador was authoritatively found to 

 be the lake trout {Cristivomer nwimycush) . Alfred C. Weed of 

 the Field Museum, who accompanied a previous MacMillan expedi- 

 tion to Frobisher Bay. Baffin Land, and caught the alleged fresh- 

 water cod in a lake there, recenth^ advised Doctor Kendall that in 

 the stomachs of some of the fish he found numerous sea urchins. 

 From this fact it may be inferred that the lake is fresh only at the 

 surface. 



Besides the fishes brought back by the expedition, the collections 

 comprise a number of marine invertebrates. 



SOUTH ATLANTIC AND GULF FISHERY INVESTIGATIONS 



SHORE FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



The collection of fish eggs and young fish, begun at Beaufort, X. C, 

 a few years ago. was continued. During 1929 a special effort was 

 made, Ijy varying the methods of collecting and by sampling many 

 localities, to complete series indicative of the various stages in the 

 growth of as many species as possible. 



To date 24 local species of fishes that have been definitely identi- 

 fied are represented more or less completely in the collections by 

 series showing the various stages in development. Drawings illus- 

 trating the development have been made for all these species, and 

 descriptions have been prepared for several. It may be stated here 

 that the series often are not as complete as desirable and that it 

 takes much time and perseverance to complete them. Furthermore, 

 an effort has been made to determine the rate of growth during the 

 first year of all the food fishes taken during the couree of making 

 collections of young fish. This work is in charge of Dr. Samuel 

 F. Hildebrand, director of the Bureau of Fisheries laboratory at 

 Beaufort, X. C. avIio is assisted by Dr. James S. Gutsel'l (part time) 

 and Louella E. Cable. 



TERRAPIN CULTURE 



The cooperative terrapin cultural work of the North Carolina 

 Department of Conservation and the Bureau of Fisheries begun in 

 1924. has been continued at the Beaufort station. On May 17, 1929. 

 the brood of 1928, numbering 5,778 animals which had been kept 

 in the nursery house during the winter, was turned over to the North 

 Carolina State Fish Commission for liberation. The average length 

 of all the animals liberated was close to II/3 inches. Many were 1% 

 inches long, quite a few were as much as 2 inches in length, and a 

 few 214 inches. However, the average length was greatly reduced 

 by those animals that did not gi-ow at all, of which a considerable 



