The food and game fishes of New York: . -. In Southern California this fish is highly prized by anglers who are fond of biggame and hard play. In the Bay of Chaleur and off Caraquette, in the Gulf ofSt. Lawrence region, 100 Tunny were captured by means of baited lines, and thefishing was considered exciting because the fish pulled with such violence as toendanger the lives of the fishermen by dragging them overboard. This kind ofexercise miglit be had near Rockport, Mass., or off the New Jersey coast annuallyin summer. 85. Bonito I Stirt/ij sarda Bloch). Pchiiiiys sarJii , X. Y. Faun

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The food and game fishes of New York: . -. In Southern California this fish is highly prized by anglers who are fond of biggame and hard play. In the Bay of Chaleur and off Caraquette, in the Gulf ofSt. Lawrence region, 100 Tunny were captured by means of baited lines, and thefishing was considered exciting because the fish pulled with such violence as toendanger the lives of the fishermen by dragging them overboard. This kind ofexercise miglit be had near Rockport, Mass., or off the New Jersey coast annuallyin summer. 85. Bonito I Stirt/ij sarda Bloch). Pchiiiiys sarJii , X. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 106, pi. 9, fig. 27, 1S42. Sarda sarda Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C, VII, 138, 1888 ; i^e , Bull. 47, Nat. Mus., I, 872, 1896 ; Beax, Bull. Am. Mus. \at. Hist., IX, 360, 1897, Graves-end Bay. Color steel blue above, the sides silvery, the abdomen and under surface of headsilvery white ; from 10 to 20 dark bluish, narrow bands obliquely downward and for- THE FOOD AM) GAMK FISIIKS OF NEW YORK. 569 ward from the back,

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