Sauger; Sand-pike 



This is one of the most important fishes propagated by the United 

 States Fish Commission. The principal propagating-station is at Put- 

 in Bay, and the output in 1900 was 89,700,000 eggs, fry, and finger- 

 lings. 



Those who are acquainted with the wall-eyed pike as a food-fish 

 hold it in very high esteem. The flesh is firm, flaky, and white, and 

 of delicious flavour. 



Colour, dark olive, finely mottled with brassy, the latter colour 

 forming indistinct oblique bars ; sides of head more or less vermiculated ; 

 lower jaw flesh-coloured; belly and lower fins pinkish; spinous dorsal 

 with a large jet-black blotch on membrane of the last 2 or 3 spines, 

 otherwise nearly plain; second dorsal and caudal mottled olive and 

 yellowish ; base of pectoral dusky, without distinct black blotch. 



The colour of this fish is very variable, as is indicated by some of 

 its vernacular names, as yellow pike, gray pike, and blue pike. It can 

 always be told from the sauger by its fewer subequal pyloric creca. 



Sauger; Sand-pike 



Sti^ostedion canadense (Smith) 



The sauger is found from the St. Lawrence westward through the 

 Great Lakes, and in the Mississippi Valley west to Montana and south 

 to Tennessee and Arkansas. It is especially abundant northward, in the 

 St. Lawrence and the lower Great Lakes, where the typical form is 

 found. In the upper Great Lakes and southwestward is found the sub- 

 species griseum, which differs chiefly in the smoother opercles, fewer 

 opercular spines, and the less complete squamation of the head. In 



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