The food and game fishes of New York: . 595, 1900. Color bluish or brownish, usuall_\- with a brassy luster on sides; head and backsometimes spotted w ith brassy ; young with darkci blotches and markings, and THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 437 often with a black blotch near the middle of the dorsal fin. Some individuals areyellowish and the young are often green. The Conner is known also as Chogset and Bergall (this changed to Bengal inGreat Egg Harbor Bay, N. Mitchill gives the name of IMue fish as in use inNew York in 1815 ; Perch, Sea Perch and Blue Ierch are New England names g
The food and game fishes of New York: . 595, 1900. Color bluish or brownish, usuall_\- with a brassy luster on sides; head and backsometimes spotted w ith brassy ; young with darkci blotches and markings, and THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 437 often with a black blotch near the middle of the dorsal fin. Some individuals areyellowish and the young are often green. The Conner is known also as Chogset and Bergall (this changed to Bengal inGreat Egg Harbor Bay, N. Mitchill gives the name of IMue fish as in use inNew York in 1815 ; Perch, Sea Perch and Blue Ierch are New England names givenfor this fish. Names used with reference to its bait-stealing propensities are : Nip-pe. and Bait-stealer. The Cunner is common from Labrador to at least as far south as New Jersey. The Bergall is found in Gravesend Bay throughout the year. In 1898 the writerfound it in Peconic Bay and the adjacent Scallop Pond ; south side of Great SouthBay opposite Patchogue ; Pirc Island Inlet; Blue Point Co\e and Duncans Creek. ,((-/?>?. In 1899 young examples were taken at Water Island ocean beach, June 6. In 1901young of a yellow color and only ifs inches long, were seined in a creek near FireIsland Inlet August 15. Half-grown and adults were caught at a wreck on TobeysFlat August 14, and at Smiths Point August 23. At Woods Hole, Mass., the Cunner is very abundant and remains during theentire year. Thousands perish from cold every winter. The fish spawns in egg is about ^g inch in diameter, buoyant, and has been hatched in the tidalcod-jar in five days in water of a mean temperature of 56° F. By August i theyoung an inch long are observed. Outside of Gayhead and Cuttyhunk the fishreaches a weight of zy^ pounds, but the usual weight is from J^ to }^ pound. InFebruary, 1901, thousands of Gunners were killed by extreme cold at Woods Hole. The Cunner endures captivity very well, individuals having been kept three yearsor longer. The species is usually associated with the Taut
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