. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 236 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES tribe. There are records for Gloucester (several specimens), Magnolia, Danvers, Salem, and South Boston (a specimen 2 inches long), in Massachusetts; for Saco Beach (fry of about 1 to 3 inches) and Casco Bay, in Maine. Fry have even been reported once or twice as far east as Halifax, Nova Scotia, but most of these records date back many years and none of the fishermen of whom we have inquired know it at all north of Cape Cod. It appears more often,
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 236 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES tribe. There are records for Gloucester (several specimens), Magnolia, Danvers, Salem, and South Boston (a specimen 2 inches long), in Massachusetts; for Saco Beach (fry of about 1 to 3 inches) and Casco Bay, in Maine. Fry have even been reported once or twice as far east as Halifax, Nova Scotia, but most of these records date back many years and none of the fishermen of whom we have inquired know it at all north of Cape Cod. It appears more often, if irregularly, at Woods Hole, where young fish are sometimes common in August and September. 91. Lookdown {Selene vomer Linnseus) Hoesehead; Moonfish Jordan and Evermann, 1S96-1900, p. 936. Description.—The very high second dorsal (about 22 rays) and anal fins (about 20 rays) of the lookdown, and their peculiar falcate outline, with the second ray. Fig. 111.—Lookdown (Sdene vomer) much the longest and the next 4 or 5 rays successively shorter and shorter, make distinction between it and the moonfish easy. Hardly less characteristic is its peculiar form, for it shares with the moonfish a deep, rhomboid, but very thin flat body (the fish is only about one and one-half times as long as deep), abruptly truncate in front, with slightly concave profile, but tapering rearward to a slender caudal peduncle. The mouth is set so low and the eye so high that the expression of its face is very characteristic. When adult the first dorsal is reduced to 6 or 7 short inconspicuous spines, only the first 3 of which are connected by a membrane, and the ventrals are very small; but in fry up to 4 or 5 inches long some of the spines of the first dorsal are greatly elongate, the ventrals are much longer, and the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not p
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