LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. FACING PAGE. 



1. Biological laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in Beaufort Harbor, erected 



in 1902. 



Boating a, shad seine, Albemarle Sound .' 1 



2. Sturgeon {Acipenser oxyrhynchus) 8 



3. Branch herring; goggle-eye (Pomolobus pseudoharengus) . Male 122 



4. Glut herring; May herring; blue-back {Pomolobus cestivalis) 124 



5. Shad {Alosa sapidissima) - 126 



6. Landing a shad seine, Albemarle Sound. 



Splitting and salting herring at a seine fishery on Albemarle Sound 128 



7. Flier (Centrarchus macropterus) 232 



8. Banded sun-fish (Mesogonistius chcetodon) 238 



9. Blue-gill; blue joe {Lepomis incisor). Female 242 



10. Large-mouth black bass; Welsliman {Micropterus salmoides) 246 



11. Yellow perch; red-fin; Englishman (Perca flavescens) 250 



12. Striped bass; rock-fish (iSoccits lineatus) 272 



13. Pig-fish or hog-fish (Orthopristis chrysopterus) 290 



14. Sheepshead {Archosargits prohatocephalus) 300 



15. Squeteague; weak-fish {Cynoscion regcdis) 310 



16. Spotted squeteague; spotted weak-fish {Cynoscion nebulosua) 312 



17. Spot {Leiostormis xanthwus) 316 



18. Croaker {Micropogon undulaius) 318 



19. Red drum; red-fish {Scicenops ocdlatus) 320 



20. A' camp of mullet fishermen on Shackleford Banks. 



Drag-seine fishing on a North Carolina shoal 408 



21. Shad hatchery of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries on Pembroke Creek near Edenton. 

 Interior of shad hatchery, showing automatic hatching jars 414 



TEXT FIGUBES. PAGE. 



1. Cut of yellow perch showing parts usually referred to in descriptions -. . 24 



2. Lancelet. Branchiostonia lanceolatum 27 



3. Sea lamprey. Petromyzonmarinus 28 



4. Cow shark. Hexanchus griseus 30 



5. Bonnet-headed shark. Sphyrna tihuro 35 



6. Hammer-headed shark. Sphyrna zygmna. Dorsal and dorso-lateral views 36 



7. Saw-fish. Pristis pectinatus 39 



8. Guitar-fish. Rhinobatus lentiginosiis. Lateral and dorsal views 40 



9. Brier ray. Raja eglanteria. Male 42 



10. Torpedo. Tetronarce ocddentalis 43 



11. Sea-devil. Manta birostris 48 



12. Sturgeon. Acipenser oxyrhynchus , 56 



13. Short-nosed sturgeon. Acipenser brevirostrum 58 



14. Mud-fish: bow-fin. Amiatus calva 60 



