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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Location and size of smelt and authorities for same — Continued 
Locality 
Size 
Authority 
Small form, 4pg to 5 T “ 5 inches 
Kendall (notes). 
Do. 
Small form, 354 to 4 Si inches 
Long Lake, Me 
Over Yi pound ' 
Foster and Atkins, 1868. 
Mead, 1883. 
Do — - 
13 inches to 6*4 ounces 
Lake Auburn, Me 
21^ to 3 inches __ 
2 Vi inches. 
Merrill. 
Sebattus Pond, Me 
Small .... . . . 
Atkins, 1868. 
Kendall (notes, 1898). 
Atkins, 1868. 
do : 
and 3 3 /» inches 
Wilton Pond, Me 
Very small 
Do 1 
3)4 inches 
Cope, 1877. 
Kendall (notes). 
Powers (letter, 1906). 
Atkins (notes, 1875). 
Kendall (notes). 
Do. 
Do 
2)4 to 3)4 inches... 
Snow Pond, Me 
4 fish averaged \)4 pounds each 
Great Pond, North Belgrade, Me 
10 to 12 inches 
Do " 
10?<j inches 
Mount Vernon Pond, Me __ 
3jM to 5 inches 
Messalonskee Lake, Me 
12 and 1434 inches 
Atkins, 1869. 
Atkins (notes, 1878). 
Do. 
Cold Stream Pond, Me 
7 to inches 
Cochnewagn Pond, Me 
3 to 6£ inches _ 
Cobbosseeeontee Lake, Me 
4 inches 
Cope, 1877. 
Kendall (notes). 
Kendall (notes, 1899). 
Pope (in 1923). 
Packard (in 1900). 
Atkins (notes, 1878). 
Kendall (notes). 
Do. 
Do 
3J to 51 inches 
China Lake, Me 
Very large __ 
Sebec Lake, Me . 
8 to 14 and 4 to 5 inches 
Toddy Pond, Me 
4 inches 
Do . 
234 to 454 inches 
Heart Pond, Me 
3^4 to 4 inches 
Green Lake, Me 
A tkins (notes, 1878). 
Kendall (notes, 1906). 
Do. 
Do 1 
354 to 4iV inches, small form 
Do 
5)4 to S)4 inchos, large form 
Grand Lake, Me 
Atkins (notes, 1879). 
Kendall (notes). 
Do 
Small; 334 to 4 inches 
Creaser (1925) ascertained that at 7% inches the smelt of Crystal Lake, Mich., 
weighs 1.5 ounces, and states that this is about the average 2-year-old size. Three- 
year-old fish weighed from 2 ounces, when 8)4 inches long, to 3 ounces, when 9)4 
inches long. Those of larger size, about 11 inches, weigh about 5 ounces. 
SIZE CLASSES 
Whether there be one or more species of fresh -water smelts in some New Eng- 
land lakes and in Lake Champlain or not, there are two distinct sizes of smelts in each, 
which in the spring ascend affluents to spawn, the time varying considerably in the 
different lakes. There is also a difference in the spawning time of the two sizes, per- 
haps a month between the height of the season of one to the height of the season of 
the other, of which fact Sebago and Green Lakes in Maine are examples. The two 
sizes are usually denominated, respectively, “large smelt ” and “small smelt.” 
The two categories of smelts of some lakes are greatly different in size from 
those of other lakes. Sebago Lake, for example, has large smelt ranging from about 
10 to 15 inches or more in length and up to a pound or so in weight, and small smelt 
not exceeding about 6 inches, with an average length of not over 4 or 5 inches. In 
Grand Lake, of the western St. Croix system, the large smelt does not exceed 4 or 5 
inches in length and the small ones not much over 2 inches. The latter, even so 
small and transparent, are adult fish bearing eggs and milt. 
The above two examples represent the extremes of variation, but there are other 
waters where the large and small smelts are relatively not as large and small. Some 
other lakes apparently contain only one class of smelt, either the large or the small 
race, as the case may be. Wherever the two categories occur they have long been 
recognized and are usually regarded as distinct. 
