1885. ] A brief Biography of the Halibut. 957 
The most northern occurrence of the halibut on the western 
side of Davis’ strait is that recorded by Mr. Ludwig Kumlien, 
naturalist of the Howgate expedition, who saw a large individual 
taken by the Eskimos off the mouth of Davis’ straits, near lati- 
tude 64° north. 
Richardson, in the Fauna Boreali-Americana, speaks of the 
occurrence of the species on the Greenland coast, but seems to 
have no authentic information of its having been observed even 
K3 as far north as Labrador on the opposite side. 
There is no reasonable doubt that the halibut is found along 
the entire eastern coast of Labrador, though there is no other 
published record of its occurrence north of Red bay, in the Straits 
of Belle Isle, near latitude 51° 40’ north, where it was observed 
by Mr. Horatio R. Storer, several individuals having been taken 
during his stay at that place in the summer of 1849. 
It is abundant in certain parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 
especially the island of Anticosti, and is also found along the entire 
-coasts of Newfoundland and the eastern shores of Nova Scotia. 
In June, 1878, the schooner G. P. Whitman, of Gloucester, 
caught a fare of halibut in two to twelve fathoms of water near 
4 Green point, Newfoundland. The crew said that they could see 
the fish lying on the bottom in shallow water. 
Capt. George Olsen, schooner Proctor Brothers, arrived at 
Gloucester, August 2, 1880, with 22,000 pounds’ weight of fresh 
halibut from Anticosti. He reported halibut plenty then at the 
western end of the island close inshore—within half a mile; he 
_ Saw the halibut sporting near and on the surface; he found they 
would not bite, as on the banks, at halibut bait, and since fresh 
__ herring or capelin could not be obtained, could only get a partial 
= trip of halibut. They were good fish, weighing sixty to eighty 
w pounds. 
- According to M. H. Perley halibut are found in the Bay of 
Fundy up to its very head, where they are taken in summer in 
Cumberland bay, near the light-house off Apple river, and also in 
est bay. He states that they are also found on the south shore 
_ of the Bay of Fundy, and abundantly from Cape Split to Brier 
island, as well as in the Annapolis basin. Perley’s report was pre- 
_ Pared in 1852, and there is no evidence of diminution in that 
_ region since he wrote. 
Mr. J. Matthew Jones tells me that halibut are occasionally 
