404 THE ZOOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



stituting an outlying area isolated from, and yet belong- 

 ing to the Acadian district or fauna. Therefore it ap- 

 pears that the line of floating ice, which extends down 

 the coast of Labrador as far as the Mingan Islands, is the 

 northward limit of the haddock and mackerel, while the 

 herring, a member of the Acadian fauna, does not breed 

 in any comparative abundance north of this point. The 

 distribution of Radiates, Mollusca, Articulates, -and 

 Fishes thus agrees very closely on the northeastern, 

 shores of the continent. 



One person at Henley Harbor takes upon the average 

 eight hundred quintals during the short summer season, 

 and cures them there. A few herring were seined at 

 Square Island on July 6. 



I find in a lecture on the Herring Fishery by M. A.. 

 Warren, Esq., who owns one of the largest fishing estab- 

 lishments on the coast of Labrador, some observations 

 on the herring as observed in Labrador and Newfound- 

 land, which are here quoted, as the article is not likely 

 to fall into the hands of American naturalists. 



"The female herring in Newfoundland come near the 

 shore in moderate weather, and deposit their spawn, 

 generally at night, in from 3 to 5 fathoms of water. The 

 males follow and shed their milt over it." ..." It is 

 impossible, without seeing it, to form any idea of the 

 prodigious abundance of the ova of the herring yearly 

 deposited in Fortune Bay, and other of the favorite 

 spawning-beds of the herring. The water will at times 

 be seen white with milt for many acres." ..." From 

 personal observation, and from all the information I can 

 obtain, I believe there are several schules of herrino- that 

 come in on different portions of our coast to spawn. It 



