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Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Identifier: annualreportofco1901newy (find matches)
Year: 1896-1900) (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- New York (State); Fisheries -- New York (State); Game and game-birds -- New York (State)
Publisher: (Albany, N. Y. : The Commission
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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296 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 38. Moon-eye (Hiodon tcrgisus LeSueur). Hyodon fergisiis DeKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 265, pi. 41, fig. 130 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 260, 1883. Hiodon fcrgisits Bean, Fishes Penna., 57, pi. 25, fig. 44 (named alosoides), 1893 ; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 413, 1896, pi. LXVIII, fig. 180, 1900. This species is called Moon-eye, Toothed Herring, and Silver Bass. It is found in Canada, the Great Lakes region and the upper part of the Mississippi Valley, being very common in large streams and lakes. It abounds in Lake Erie and the Ohio and is seined in large numbers. DeKay observed the fish in the Alleghany River, N. Y. He recorded it also from Buffalo and Barcelona, on Lake Erie, at which places it is known as Moon-eye, Shiner and Lake Herring. He says it is very indifferent food.
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MOON-EYE. This species grows to a length of i foot and, like the other, though a beauti- ful fish and possessed of excellent game qualities, its flesh is full of small bones. It is a good fish for the aquarium : it will take a minnow or the artificial fly very readily, and the utmost skill is required in its capture. Its food consists of insects, small fishes and crustaceans. Dr. Richardson describes this fish as a member of the minnow family, which, he says, is known to the Canadians under the name La Quesche. The fish is described as having the back brilliant green, sides and abdomen with a silvery luster. The specimens which were taken in the Richelieu, where it falls into the St. Lawrence, were about 9 or 10 inches long.

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