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B. Biographical notices of the most important species. After treat- 

 ing them separately they may be considered collectively, or at least by 

 groups of species. 



C. The relationships of fishes in general to each other and to the 

 shores and sea-bottom, as also to physical condition, their migration and 

 movements, and the influence of men upon the same. 



D. Their numbers and abuudance formerly and at the present time. 



E. Their fatalities, diseases, and destruction by natural causes and 

 other than by ordinary human agency (which belong to the subject of 

 the fisheries). 



F. Their food, animal and vegetable. 



G. Their reproduction, including their fecundity, their habits during 

 that season, their rate of growth, and their conditions of maturity. 



A. — List of the principal food and bait marine fishes of the 

 eastern united states and british provinces.* 



1. Principal food and bait fishes. 



LOPHIID^. 



1. Lopliius piscatorius (Linu.j. Goosefish; Monkfisk; Molligut. 

 Nova Scotia and Chesapeake. 



PLEURONECTIDJE. 



2. Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walb.) Gill. Common Flounder; 

 Winter Flounder ; Mud Dab (Massachusetts Bay) ; Sole (New York). 

 Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras. 



3. Limanda ferruginea (Storer) Goode & Bean. Busty Dab; Sand Dab 

 (Maine). 



Nova Scotia to Long Island. 



4. Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linn.) Gill. Pole Flounder. 

 North Atlantic, south to Block Island. 



5. Pomatopsetta dentata (Storer) Gill. Smooth Plaice ; Smooth-back. 

 Massachusetts to Maine. 



0. Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabr.) Gill. Arctic Dab. 

 Polar regions to Cape Cod. 



7. Pseudorhombus dentatus (Linn.) Giinther. Common Flounder. 

 Cape Ann to Brazil. 



8. Hippoglossus vulgaris (Fleming). Halibut. 

 Greenland and Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras. 



9. Platysomatichthys hippoglossoides (Walb.) Goode & Bean. Green- 

 land Turbot. 



Greenland to Eastern Banks. 



* This list is intended to present the principal species of food and bait fishes found 

 north of the Delaware or the thirty-ninth degree of latitude. 



