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Table 6. — Log of trapping through ice — continued 

 Date Trap Data 



4-1 1-50 Screen Set today, baited with snail viscera and old fish. 



Great amount of debris in water for the first 

 time since summer. 

 4-12-50 " I jellyfish, Cyanea capillata (large), i annelid, 



Phyllodoce groenlandica. Anonyx nugax 

 (abundant), i snail, Bucchmm glaciate 

 Wire 7 Arctic cod about 50 mm. long (trap suspended 



at a depth of 10 feet) 

 4-15-50 Screen i Cyanea capillata. Amphipods — i Anonyx 



nugax; 2 Orchomenella mimita; 3 O. pinguis; 

 2 Monoculodcs packardi ; i Ischyrocerus 

 latipes. 2 shrimps, Eualus gaimardi (with 

 green eggs showing through carapace), i 

 small clam 

 4-18-50 " 2 Cyanea capillata. Amphipods — Anonyx nugax 



(common) ; 3 Orchomenella ? sp. ; i Erictho- 

 nius sp. ; i Ischyrocerus ? sp. i snail, Buc- 

 cinum teniie 

 26 unidentified amphipods (9 ovigerous) 

 4 Cyanea capillata 

 30 Arctic cod (trap suspended at a depth of 10 



feet) 

 12 Arctic cod (2 very young) (trap suspended 



as above) 

 21 Arctic cod (trap suspended as above) 

 25 Arctic cod. Traps suspended at a depth of 

 10 feet in a crack that developed in the ice 

 near the 80-foot hole. 



RECORDS OF SURF CONDITIONS AND SHORE COLLECTING 



During the summer of 1948 the pack ice did not go more than 10 

 miles offshore, and except when fog prevented was nearly always in 

 sight. With the exception of one day, drift ice was always in sight. 

 On some days it was scattered, and on others it formed large compact 

 cakes, which often grounded along the shore. Sometimes the floes 

 consisted of masses of small ice cakes and sometimes there were 

 islands of ice several acres in extent (pi. 6, fig. 2) . Because of so much 

 floating ice, there was comparatively little surf during the summer 

 of 1948, and as a result very few animals were washed ashore. The 

 writer has never seen a beach so barren of animal life over a 3-month 

 period as was that at Point Barrow during the open water of that 

 year. One specimen of the annelid Arenicola glacialis found at the 

 edge of the water, an empty snail shell found near the Point, and a 

 few fragments of dead bryozoan colonies constituted the total flotsam 

 and jetsam for the summer. 



