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FISHES OF THE CONNECTICUT LAKES. 39 
It is related that years ago lumbermen used to net this fish in large 
quantities during the spawning time in this place. It is said not to 
be abundant now. 
In the summer this whitefish, like the other species, affects cool 
water and consequently usually frequents the deeper water of the 
lakes. In the early evening in calm weather it approaches the 
surface, where it feeds upon insects that have fallen upon the water. 
Its mouth is small, therefore it is not frequently taken on baited 
hook or fly. It ascends streams to spawn the last of October and 
first of November. It is’said that the spawn is emitted at the surface 
of the water, one or more males accompanying the female during the 
act. The eggs are at first semibuoyant, but gradually settle to the 
bottom and are hatched in the early spring on rising temperature. 
The usual method of capture is by nets on the spawning grounds 
or when the fish is approaching those places. This is an excellent 
pan fish, and in city markets often appears as smoked whitefish 
or lake bei which, when baked or broiled, makes a delicious 
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Fig. 1.—Whitefish. Length, 1134 inches. 
13. Great Lakes Wuirterisu. Coregonus clupeiformis (Mitchill). 
Plate vir and fig. 1.~° 
Head 4.59 in length to base of caudal; depth 4.84; eye 5.48 in head; snout 
4.35; maxillary 3.95; mandible 2.9; interorbital 3.62; dorsal 12; anal 13; scales 
10-83-8; gillrakers 10+18 and 11+17 on right and left sides respectively, the 
longest about 1.64 in eye. 
Body rather long and compressed, the back somewhat arched in front; head 
small and short; snout short and blunt; mouth small, nearly horizontal; 
maxillary short, broadly ovate; lower jaw included, the blunt snout somewhat 
projecting ; dorsal moderately high, about 1.45 in head; anal about 2.28 in head. 
Upper part of head and body dusky olive, punctulate; throat and belly 
white; membrane of all the fins black. 
The above description is taken from a spent female about 19.5 inches long 
from Umbagog Lake, N. H., collected in the winter of 1903. This specimen is 
selected because it shows the changes sometimes incident to transplanting and 
which would most likely be the appearance that the same species would assume 
in the Connecticut Lakes. A male fish 15 inches total length had the following 
proportional measurements: Head 4.24; depth 3.52; eye 4.86; snout 3.84; dorsal 
11; anal 11; gillrakers 10+18 and 10+17; longest 1.87 in eye. Color about as 
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