32 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Ommastrephes illecebrosa Ver. 



Hie squid generally north of Cape Cod, and the only squid of the 

 Gulf of Maine, Bay of Fundy, &c. 

 Loligo Pealii Lesueur. Squid. 



South of Cape Cod, and also occurring in Massachusetts Bay. 



My a arenaria Linn. Long Clam. 



Banging from South Carolina to the Arctic Ocean. 

 Venus mercenaria Linn. Bound Clam 5 Quahog. 



Massachusetts Bay to Florida ; Quahog Bay, Me. ; Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence (Local). 

 Sjnsula solidissima Gray. Sea Clam ; Surf Clam. 



Labrador to Gulf of Mexico. 

 Gnathodon cuneatus. Louisiana. 

 Mytilus edulis Linn. Common Mussel (or muscle). 

 Modiola plicatula Lamarck. Bibbed Mussel. 



These two species are both said to be used as bait off Sandy Hook, 

 X. Y. I know nothing very positive about them. 



CRUSTACEA. 



Panopeus Uerbstii Edwards. A crab, but know of no common name. 



Bange, Long Island Sound to Brazil; used for blackfish. Southern 

 States. 

 Crangon vulgaris Fabr. 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 pollock and red perch. 

 Homarus americanus Edw. Lobster. 



Banges from Labrador to New Jersey. 

 CalUnectes hastatus Ordway. Common edible Crab, or Blue Crab. 



Banges 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 

 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. 



