. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. ur coasts with the greatest carelessness,being applied to Elops saurii-s, Anoplopoma fimbria, and Mcrlucius pro-ductus, as well as to various scombroids and carangoid fishes. It reachesa length of about thirty inches and a weight of ten pounds, its averageweight being five or six. It is found from the Island of Santa Cruz toAlaska, being very irregular in its appearance, some years very abundantand at other times wanting altogether. It is exceedingly v
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. ur coasts with the greatest carelessness,being applied to Elops saurii-s, Anoplopoma fimbria, and Mcrlucius pro-ductus, as well as to various scombroids and carangoid fishes. It reachesa length of about thirty inches and a weight of ten pounds, its averageweight being five or six. It is found from the Island of Santa Cruz toAlaska, being very irregular in its appearance, some years very abundantand at other times wanting altogether. It is exceedingly voracious, feed-ing on all sorts of small fishes and squids. The stomach is always filledalmost to bursting. It spawns in the spring, and its arrival near tlie coast always precedesthe deposition of the spawn. It probably then retires to deeper water. Its value as a food-fish is very little. It is scarcely salable in the mar-ket of San Francisco. Its flesh is very soft, and it is always ragged-lookingwhen shipped. Nothing was learned as to the quality of its flesh, but itprobably differs little from the Atlantic form Merlucius
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