552 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



coast of Iceland ; it is said to be rare near Greenland, while it is frequent 

 near Boston, thus being found lo degrees farther south on the western 

 shores of the North Atlantic Ocean than on its eastern shores. This fact 

 certainly is a striking proof of the influence of the Arctic current. Ir 

 lives in deep waters where sea-weeds grow, and is consequently but little 

 known and rarely caught even in localities where it is frequent.* 



We will, among the last of the Arctic- Atlantic varieties, mention the 

 one which is mostly found in fresh water, viz, the Lota vulgaris. This 

 fish is found throughout the greater portion of Central, iforthern, and 

 Eastern Europe as far as the western, northern and northeastern portion 

 of Asia and the northern portion of North America {Lota maculosa). Its 

 most westerly limit in Europe is in the lihine, near Mauheim ; it is 

 common in the Keuss, near Sissingen, and in the Lake of Constance, in 

 the Weser, the Elbe, the Moldau, near Budweiss in Bohemia, near 

 Teschen on the Oder, and in the Vistula. It is very common in the 

 region of tlie Danube, in the Danube near Pnssau, in the Salzach, the 

 Weitra, in the Traun Lake, the Atter Lake, HallstiLdter Lake, Fuschler 

 Lake, Mond Lake, and Zirknitzer Lake ; in the river Drau, in the river 

 IRamp near Zwettel, near Datschiz in Moravia, in Transylvania, in the 

 iriver Stry in Galicia. The mostsoutherlj" point where it is found in the 

 a^egion of the Po is the Garda Lake. It is found in the Swiss lakes, 

 fia the St. Maurice Lake at a height of 5,580 feet, and in the Lake of 

 iSeelisberg, near the Lake of the Four Cantons at a height of 2,240 feet. 

 <;Oji the other side of the channel it is found in the west of England and 

 in Scotland, in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Durham, in the rivers 

 Cam, Trent, Thames, Ouse, Esk, Skern, Tees, Derwent, and also in the 

 Eirth of Forth ; also in Central Scandinavia — Gotaelf — and Northern 

 Scandinavia, in Finmarken and Lapland. In Russia it is found nearly 

 everywhere, in the Neva near St. Petersburg, in Lake Balamis in 

 Eussian Lapland, according to Eathke, in the Black Sea, and, according 

 to Pallas, in the Obi Kiver ; it is very common in the river Lena and 

 in the Northern Polar Sea as far as the Indigirka Eiver, also in the Pen- 

 shina River which flows into the Sea of Ocbotsk. In North America it 

 is common in Canada and in the neighboring portions of the United 

 States, as well as in the lakes and rivers of the Hudson Bay region. It 

 iis found in Lake Madawaska in Canada, and in the sea near Pine Island 

 in the Strait of Florida.t It likes the deep, cool, and clear bays of the 

 sea or the deep basins of the ocean, but it is likewise found in large and 

 small rivers and ponds both in flat and mountainous countries, in lakes 

 frequently at a depth of 180 to 240 feet. 



c. The following are Scandinavian varieties : Gadns Esmarhii Nilss. 

 is only found on the south coast of Norway, in the Christiana fiord. 

 Molva abyssorum J^ilss. is perhaps the same as the Gadus harbatus in 



* Sea-weeds do not grow in water deeper tlian 25 fathoms. Brosmms vulgaris (= B. 

 hrosmc) is Ly no means rarely caught. — B. 

 t Rather Pine Inland Lake, in the Hudson's Bay region.— B. 



