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that smelts often were washed up on the eastern shores of Sunapee Lake by strong 
winds. Halkett (1913), in a footnote (p. 55), says: 
Whilst engaged in some fisheries matters in the month of May, 1903, 1 found some specimens of 
the American Smelt floating dead on the surface of the water of Lac aes Isles, in the Gatineau 
district, P. Q. 
The following are chronologically arranged notes made by the present writer 
upon dead and dying smelts seen in Sebago Lake: 
July 20, 1898— A dead smelt, 11)4 inches long, and a dead sucker were found 
at the surface in Witch Cove. 
June 16, 1899. — Found one wounded smelt at the head of the “ Notch,” not quite 
dead. It bore tooth marks of some larger fish. 
April 28, 1903. — Two wounded but still living smelts, 3)4 and 5)4 inches long, 
were found at the surface. One had a fungused wound, the other a fresh cut at the 
base of the tail. 
April 29, 1903. — Off Broad Cove, 3 living smelts, 5)4, 5)4, and 5% inches long, 
respectively, were picked up at the surface. Two of them apparently had been 
wounded. One was a male with fungus about the wound; the other a female, 5)4 
inches long, with swollen and inflamed vent. Eggs were discharged freely upon light 
pressure. 
Down through the Notch several other smelts of about the same size were found. 
Some were nearly over to the south shore or mouth of Whitney Brook. They were 
fungused. Some had a slight redness under a small portion of the growth; others, 
perhaps, had lost some scales; otherwise there was no evident cause of the fungus. 
The fish were somewhat emaciated but not more so than any spent fish. There 
seemed to be more or less localized areas of redness, as though the capillaries were 
engorged or there was an extravasation of blood. The most conspicuous pathologi- 
cal condition was that of the gills, which were infested with small, white, parasitic 
copepods ( Ergasilus centrarchidarum, according to C. B. Wilson). There were many 
copepods on all of the dead and dying fish. It is hard to say whether these copepods 
were the cause of the death of the fish or were present because the fish were weak, 
dying, or dead. Judging from the number of smelts found and the number of crows 
that were collecting, there must have been a good many fish in this condition. 
April 30, 1903. — In the Notch three fungused smelts, 5)4, 5)4, and 5% inches 
long, were picked up. They were infested with parasitic copepods on the gills, as 
were those of the day before. 
September 25, 1906. — In Jordan Bay a dead smelt, 12)4 inches long, was found 
at the surface. Nate Paul, of Songo Lock, said that he had never noticed any 
dead smelts after spawning, excepting some that had been injured by dipping. 
August 18, 1907. — In a fresh northwest wind one smelt was washed ashore at 
Whites Bridge. 
August 26, 1907. — On a sand beach at Crib Point two dead smelts, each about 
5 inches long, were found. 
September 5, 1907. — One dead smelt was found at the surface in Jordan Bay. 
In a letter from George Moses, dated November 17, 1907, it was stated that just 
after a big storm he found a lot of little smelts and white perch washed up on the 
beaches at Fryes Island and on Raymond Cape. 
