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are to be found all the year, but that they go into deep water 
in cold snaps and toward evening. He stated that the schoolfish 
leave in August or September, and return in January and Feb- 
ruary. They seem to move off to the southward and to return 
from the southward and westward. 
With reference to the bank, twenty miles east northeast of 
Seminoffsky, Capt. Andrew Anderson told me that the fishing is 
best_in August and September. The “yellow fish,” Pleuro- 
grammus monopterygius, school there abundantly about the middle 
of August and will follow the bait up to the top of the water. 
Cod will bite at the yellow fish in preference to anything else. 
Mr. Marcus Baker has translated for mea note by Ivan Veni- 
aminoff, on the marine fishes of the Unalashka region, in which 
occurs the following sentence: “Some of these, and especially 
the cod, in the winter go off shore into deep water, but in sum- 
mer time they are found along the shores of certain bays and 
in shoal water.” 
SCHOOLING. 
Mr. D.C. Bowen, of St. Paul, distinguishes various schools of 
cod about the Island of Kodiak, which vary in size and other 
particulars, and take their names from their favorite food during 
the time of their stay. He gives them in the following order.: 
First, the “herring school,’ consisting of medium sized fish, 
which come about May ist and stay until June or July ; next, 
the “lant school,” feeding on sand-launce (species of Ammodytes), 
made up of short, thick, well-meated fish, not so large ae those 
of the herring school, which are present in June and July. Then 
follows the ‘‘capelin school” (the capelin is our /allotus villosus), 
July to September ; these are good-sized fish, about the same as 
Newfoundland cod. The “squid school” comes in August or 
September, and remains until October. The fish of this school 
average twelve pounds in weight. The schools so far enumer- 
ated are all shore fish, and they are always smaller than bank 
fish. From October there are winter schools in some places ; 
these are generally short, thick fish. 
Capt. J. C. Caton says that they catch males and females to- 
gether in the spawning season, and that they do not school when 
spawning. 
