CHAPTER XV. 



COMMON PICKEREL ESOX RETICULATUS. 



THIS is a common fish throughout the United 

 States, except, perhaps, the Southern. We have, 

 indeed, three or four species of this fish, but it 

 is only the smaller species that I would recom- 

 mend as suitable for fish culture, and these only 

 when we can avail ourselves of large ponds. I 

 will except however from this statement the fish 

 termed "Long Island pickerel" which rarely ex- 

 ceeds one pound in weight, and has been named 

 by Dr. De Kay Esox Fasdatus. 



I will remark here that every species of the 

 pickerel, including the Esox Estor, or Mascalonge. 

 the Esox Ohioensis, or the Pike of the Ohio river 

 and its tributaries, all belong to the Pike family, 

 and the fish commonly known by the name of 

 Pike, found ' in our great lakes, and the fish found 



