32 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES, 
Ommastrephes illecebrosa Ver. 
The squid generally north of Cape Cod, and the only squid of the 
Gulf of Maine, Bay of Fundy, We. 
Loligo Pealii Lesueur. Squid. 
South of Cape Cod, and also occurring in Massachusetts Bay. 
Mya arenaria Linn. Long Clam. 
Ranging from South Carolina to the Arctic Ocean. 
Venus mercenaria Linn. Round Clam; Quahog. 
Massachusetts Bay to Florida; Quahog Bay, Me.; Gulf of Saint Law- 
rence (Local). 
Spisult solidissima Gray. Sea Clam; Surf Clam. 
Labrador to Gulf of Mexico. 
Gnathodon cuneatus. Louisiana. 
Mytilus edulis Linn. Common Mussel (or muscle). 
Modiola plicatula Lamarck. Ribbed Mussel. 
These two species are both said to be used as bait off Sandy Hook, 
N.Y. Iknownothing very positive about them. 
CRUSTACEA. 
Panopeus Herbstii Edwards. A crab, but know of no common name. 
Range, Long Island Sound to Brazil; used for blackfish, Southern — 
States. 
Crangon vulgaris Kabr. Sand Shrimp. 
North Carolina to Labrador. 
Mysis, sp. 
Used by boys in Eastport Harbor for catching pollock and red perch. 
Thysanopoda, sp. 
Used by boys in Eastport Harbor for catching pellock and red perch. 
Homarus americanus Edw. Lobster. 
Ranges from Labrador to New Jersey. 
‘ Callinectes hastatus Ordway. Common edible Crab, or Blue Crab. 
Ranges from Cape Cod to Florida, and is occasionally found in Mas- 
sachusetts Bay. | 
3.—INVERTEBRATES WHICH MIGHT POSSIBLY ANSWER AS BAIT. 
It would seem as though nearly all the species of invertebrates which 
are found in the stomachs of fish, as food, might serve as bait for the 
same species at least; and the character of the food of some fishes is 
very varied. The following species are among the more common ones 
on the New England coasts and are easily obtained and of about the 
right size for bait, or could be rendered so by very little cutting. Of 4 
course there is the question as to whether they would all or even many ~ 
of them prove attractive'to fish when on a hook, but forms closely re- 
lated to some of them are now standard articles of bait. 
