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FISHmG-GEOUi^DS OF NOETH AMBEIGA. 



the lagoons observed by me were well filled with sticklebacks and young sculpins. Lant and 

 capelin abound. Smelt and grayling are reported as far around as Oolville Eiver by Capt. E. E. 

 Smith, ice-pilofc of the Oorwin in 1880. A species of whiteflsh {Coregonus Laurettw) was obtained 

 in abundance by Captain Hooper from natives at Point Barrow. We took the red-spotted trout 

 in our seine, and Captain Smith reports it from Colville Eiver, where he also secured herring 

 and humpback salmon {Oncorhynehus gorhusclia). Seemann has declared that salmon are not 

 found in Alaska north of Kotzebue Sound. This is an error ; we found remains of a species of 

 OncorJiyncMs, which I believe to be gorbuscha, at Icy Cape, and Captain Smith, referred to above, 

 salted in 1875 two barrels of humpback salmon which he bought at the mouth of Colville Eiver. 

 Concerning the whiteflsh of Point Barrow, Captain Hooper in his report, already referred to, says: 

 "We bought from the natives . . . some fish resembling shad, but smaller and very fat; they 

 differ also from the shad in having two (dorsal) fins. We saw the same species in Kotzebue 

 Sound and at other places within the Arctic circle. They are called by the natives tupooTc." 



Farther on he writes thus: " The salmon is the only variety of fish in the Arctic that is of any 

 value. Although smaller than the salmon caught farther south, they are of fine flavor. They are 

 quite plentiful, and the coast natives cure large quantities of them by smoking and drying for 

 winter use." 



The list of flshes given includes onjy such food- fishes as are known to occur; there are no 

 doubt others which will be discovered by collectors in the future. The methods of capture do 

 not differ from those already described, seines, gill-nets, hooks, and spears being employed just 

 as they are farther south. 



The following is a partial list of Arctic- Alaskan fishes : 

 Pleuronectes stellatus. Osmerus dentex. 



" glacialis. Mallotus villosus. 



Boreogadus saida. Coregonus Merkii. 



Lycodes cocciueus. " Laurettas. 



Cottus polyacanthocephalus. ? Thymallus. (Fide Smith.) 



" tseniopterus. Salvelinus malma. 



" humilis. Oncorhynehus gorbuscha. 



Gymnacanthus pistilliger. Clupea mirabilis. 



Amraodytes personatus. 



17. STATISTICS OF THE -ALASKAN FISHERIES IN 1880. 



Salmon exported from Alasha, 1880. 



1 Barrels of bellies. 



'^ Chowichee bellies. 



3 Silver or keezitcb. 



