BIGELOW: EXPLORATIONS OF THE COAST WATERS. 2S1 



taken them in such partially enclosed waters as South West Harbor, 

 Mt. Desert Island. Red Fish also breed on Georges Bank, where 

 Mr. W. W. Welsh found females with young in June, 1912, though we 

 have only once taken fry there (Station 10226) ; and though the young 

 have not occurred in the hauls on Brown's, or Le Have Banks, or over 

 the outer part of the shelf off Nova Scotia, their absence there is prob- 

 ably only apparent, in view of the records in the Northern Channel, 

 near Cape Sable, and off Roseway Bank (Stations 10229, 10232, 10243). 

 The largest catches of Red Fish larvae were made off Cape Elizabeth 

 and on Platts Bank in 1912 (1914a); near Cashes Ledge in 1913; off 

 Roseway Bank and Cape Sable in 1914 (Stations 10232, 10243); near 

 Monhegan Island (Station 10303) and near Cashes Ledge (Station 

 10308) in 1915. Most of the records are from 40 or more meters, but 

 they occasionally occur in large numbers on the surface. Their num- 

 bers in the Gulf, locally {e. g., Station 10308) rival the swarms encount- 

 ered by Schmidt ^ between Iceland and the Faroes (Ehrenbaum, 1905- 

 1909, p. 52). The general and common occurrence of Red Fish larvae 

 in the Gulf might at first seem an argument against the possible drift 

 of gadoid larvae thence out onto Georges Bank (p. 279), on the ground 

 that Red Fish would undergo a similar migration, resulting in a similar 

 rarity of its fry in the Gulf. But when examined critically this argu- 

 ment loses weight, first, because Red Fish eggs are not pelagic; hence 

 the period during which the species is subject to involuntary migra- 

 tions is shorter; secondly and more important, because its reproduc- 

 tion takes place pretty much all over the Gulf, instead of in the coastal 

 zone only, consequently, while the fry hatched near land are subject 

 to the same conditions as Cod or Haddock, large numbers of Red Fish 

 are likewise produced in the center of the Gulf outside the effective 

 influence of its eddy-like circulation. 



The occurrence of the young flounders, species of Hippoglossoides 

 and Gh-ptocephalus, are interesting chiefly as indicating the spa"^Tiing 

 season (p. 276). 



The only other economically or faunistically impoitant species 

 whose fry occur in any numbers in our hauls is the Herring (p. 268) ; 

 but as this is now being made the subject of special study by the Bureau 

 of Fisheries, the mere list of records will suffice. 



Euphaimids. — The Euphausiids taken in 1914, identified by 

 W. M. Tattersall, are listed in the following table. 



' I have not had access to Schmidt's account, in Skifter udg, EonunissioD for Havunder- 

 sogelser, 1904, no. 1, p. 46. 



