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Though this fish prefers such a range of depth, it may be 
trapped in water as shallow as two fathoms or as deep as 
three hundred fathoms. To the most favoured depths the 
animal retires after the spawning season, which is also that 
of optimum temperature along the immediate Labrador 
shore, has been passed. In rhythmic fashion the cod 
returns each year to its birthplace with the shoal, and 
haunts the same neighbourhood throughout its short season 
of inshore life. 
| halal Locauity ARRIVAL | CLOSE OF FISHERY Beirne sae 
51° 30’ | Cape Bauld June 20 October 20 122 days 
52° Chateau Bay June 20 October 1 102 days 
53° 24’ | Batteau July 12 October 1 80 days 
54° 26’ | Indian Harbour | July 15 October 1 78 days 
54° 56’ | Cape Harrison | July 18 October 1 75 days 
55° 27’ | Hopedale July 20 October 1 73 days 
55° 52’ | Davis Inlet July 28 October 1 65 days 
56°33 | Nain July 28 October 1 65 days 
57° 30’ | Okkak July 28 October 1 65 days 
58° 30’ | Hebron August 15 | September 15 32 days 
The shoal arrives on the coast about a week later for 
every degree of latitude farther north. But, as codfish 
are spread over the whole coast of over a thousand miles 
simultaneously during August and September, the later 
arrival in the north cannot be due to a south-to-north move- 
ment of the same individual fish in a single shoal. The 
first fish at St. Anthony (on the Treaty shore of Newfound- 
land) appear about May 25; those at Cartwright, about 
July 25. In Europe the advance-guard reach the Nor- 
