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pelagic haddock young. At none of our stations did we find a single specimen of the 

 fry (or egg), and thongii tiio stations in sliallow water are not numerous there can be no 

 doubt tiiat the haddock does not spawn or if so only to an extremely small extent in the 

 Bay of Biscay. That older stages of the haddock may occur in the Bay of Biscay is 

 naturally no proof that they are spawned there. Moread (1. c. p. 238) states for the occur- 

 rence of the haddock on the west coast of France: "assez commun jusqu'à l'embouchure de 

 la Gironde; assez commun dans le Golfe de Gascogne." (Cf. what is said later on in the 

 "General Part" under D. Drift of the pelagic gadoid fry). According to kind information 

 from Dr. Ad. Cligny: "Le G. aecflefinus ne se rencontre pas dans le Golfe de Gascogne ni 

 même sur la côte sud de Bretagne sauf exceptions ; on en rencontre en revanche des Sor- 

 lingues à l'Irlande et notamment aux environs des Sorlingues au mois d'Août. On en 

 prend aussi un peu dans la Manche orientale et le Pas-de-Calais en hiver." 



6. Gadus merlangiis Linné, Whiting (Chart IV) 



§ 1. Remarks on the identification 



Number of vertebrae in adult specimens 



No. of vertebrae 

 18 + 35 



18 + 36.... 



19 + 34 



19 + 35 



19 + 36 



19 + 37 



20 + 34 



20 + 35 



20 + 36 



20 + 37 



21 + 34...., 



Pser 



oes Iceland 



5 



10 



3 



1 



Summary 



No. of vertebrœ No. of specimens 



53 5 



54 36 



55 64 



56 18 



57 1 



Although there is no difficulty in general in distinguishing the young of the whiting, 

 I give here the number of vertebrae found in adult specimens; those for the Skager Eak 

 were counted by my colleague Dr. A. C. Johansen, who has kindly placed his results at my 

 disposal. With the aid of these numbers the determination of the young whiting can be 

 readily controlled. 



1 have not been able to carry out the determination of the whiting eggs in our 



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