Home › Volumes › Fishes › The Smelts
Pond Smelt
Images coming soon.
This delicious and excellent little food-fish is abundant on both coasts of Bering Sea southward to Japan and the Aleutian Islands. It spawns in fresh-water ponds, and is exceedingly abundant about St. Michaels. From the surf smelt, which it closely resembles, it is distinguished by its higher fins, the longest dorsal ray being only 6 in body; pectoral reaching 2/3 distance to ventrals, their length 5 in body; ventrals 6 in body. Colour, dusky, little transparent.