New York, May 24, 1917. No. 44 



Published to advance the Science of cold-blooded vertebrates 



AN UNUSUAL CATCH OF THE YOUNG 

 OF MAINE WHITEFISH. 



( Coregonus labradoricus. ) 



During March, numerous specimens of imma- 

 ture whitefish were taken with smelts in seines at 

 Winterport, Walo County, Maine, in the tidal por- 

 tion of the Penohscot River. The fish were not recog- 

 nized by the fishermen and the fact was reported to 

 Mr. James D. De Rocher, Superintendent of the 

 U. S. Fisheries Station at East Orland, who secured 

 three specimens and sent them to the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries for identification. Mr. De Rocher stated that 

 in this place the water is only moderately brackish, 

 but inasmuch as in Maine this fish is an inhabitant of 

 the deeper lakes, and usually appears in streams only 

 during the breeding season, and notwithstanding the 

 fact that in the far north adult whitefishes enter salt 

 water, it is believed that the present record is of in- 

 terest. The origin of these young fish, which are only 

 from 6 to 6^ inches in total length, is worthy of rec- 

 ord. They had been feeding upon some small aquatic 

 larva of insects. 



W: C. Kendall, 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



