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-Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron, and in many of the bays 

 and larger streams attached to them, in which the water is 

 clear and the bottom of sand and gravel. By very many 

 persons this fish is well liked as a food fish, and immense 

 numbers are propagated every year. 



The last -reported catches of "Pike and Pickerel" for a 

 single year were as follows : 



Mississippi River and tributaries (1903), 707,093 pounds, worth $26,296 

 Great Lakes (1903). 300,076 " " 15,698 



Minor interior waters (1900, 1903), 286,742 " " 27,683 



1,293,911 " " $69,677 



MISCELLANEOUS SPINY-FINNED FISHES 



The Blue-and-Yellow Angel-Fish,^ of Bermuda and 

 other tropical waters, is about 15 inches in length, and in its 

 color pattern it is one of the most beautiful of all fishes. 

 Around the Bermudas its favorite haunts are the wonderful 

 coral barrier reefs known as the "Sea Gardens." It repre- 

 sents the Family of Scaly-Finned fishes {Chae-to-don'ti-dae) 

 familiarlj' known as Chaetodons. Specimens are frequently 

 to be seen in the New York Aquarium. 



The Bluefish'- is a fish for men. To take it in ortho- 

 dox fashion, go to treeless but delightful Block Island, pay 

 yoiu" dollar-fifty, take deck passage on a low-browed, broad- 

 beamed cat-boat, don a full suit of oil-skins, and set sail for 

 blue water. If the wind is so light that the sailing is unin- 

 teresting, you get no fish. But if there is a stifle breeze, and 

 you go up and down the eastern side of the island at racing 

 1 llol-a-can'thus cil-i-ar'is, - Po-mat'o-mus nal-ta'trix. 



