. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. 233 It is a good food-fish, but is rather shy of a baited hook, and but few are taken. It attains a size of forty inches in length and fifteen pounds. THE AMBER-FISH. weight. It is also, according to Jordan, rather common on the Carolina coast, where it is known as the "; The "Rock Salmon" of Pensacola, Seriola falcata, is recorded by Stearns as occasionally occurring near Pensacol
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE CAVALLY AND OTHER CARANGOIDS. 233 It is a good food-fish, but is rather shy of a baited hook, and but few are taken. It attains a size of forty inches in length and fifteen pounds. THE AMBER-FISH. weight. It is also, according to Jordan, rather common on the Carolina coast, where it is known as the "; The "Rock Salmon" of Pensacola, Seriola falcata, is recorded by Stearns as occasionally occurring near Pensacola in company with the preceeding species, which it resembles in habits. It is caught with hook and line and is eaten ; in his opinion, it attains a larger size than the Amber-fish. There is a third species of Amber-fish of which the National Museum has received a single specimen from South Florida. It is closely related to the fish described by Cuvier under the name Seriola Lalandii. The same species is sometimes sent to the New Orleans market, where an pxainple was seen by Prof. Jordan. Another closely allied species, Seriola dorsalis, occurs on the coast of California, where, according to Jordan, it is known under the names "Yellow-tail," " White Salmon," and "; Of the "Yellow-tail," Prof. Jordan says: "It reaches a length of four to five feet, and a weight of thirty to forty pounds, and individuals of less than fifteen pounds weight are rarely seen. It ranges from Cape San Lucas northward to the Santa Barbara and Coronados Islands, where it is found in great abundance in the spawning season, arriving in July, and departing in early fall. It spawns about August 18. It is caught chiefly by trolling. It feeds on squid and such fish as the anchovy and sardine. As a fresh fish it ranks high, although large individuals are sometimes coarse and tough. When salted and dried it is inferior to none on the coast, ranking with the wh
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