. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. 228 AMERICAN FISHES. to the sea. These young are then of about one pound weight, appearing to the casual observer like pompano, and I am told that they equal it for edible purposes. They are caught accidently by seines and trolling-lines. Large ones are not considered choice food, the flesh being dark and almost tasteless. The average weight is twelve pounds; occasionally they attain the size of twenty ; Prof. Jorda
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. 228 AMERICAN FISHES. to the sea. These young are then of about one pound weight, appearing to the casual observer like pompano, and I am told that they equal it for edible purposes. They are caught accidently by seines and trolling-lines. Large ones are not considered choice food, the flesh being dark and almost tasteless. The average weight is twelve pounds; occasionally they attain the size of twenty ; Prof. Jordan found this species abundant in Lake Pontchartrain. Caranx crumenophthalmus, called in the Bermudas, where it is of some importance as a food-fish, the " Goggler," or " Goggle-eyed Jack," and in Cuba the " Cicharra," occurs in the West Indies and along the Atlan- tic coast of the United States north to Vineyard Sound. It is also found at Panama and in the Gulf of California, and in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and off the coast of Guinea, while, as has been remarked, it is abundant in the Bermudas. Its. large, protruding eyes are very noticeable features, and the Bermuda name seems appropriate for adoption, since the fish has with us never received a distinctive name. In form it somewhat resembles the species last discussed, with which it is probably often confused. Stearns speaks of a fish, common at Key West, which is known as the " Horse-eyed Jack," and this may prove to be the same \ ^ THE JUREL OR HARD-TAIL, Caranx pisquetus, known about Pensacola as the " ; " Cojinua," and "Hard-tail"; along the Florida coast as "Jack-fish" and "Skip- jack"; in the Bermudas as the "Jack" or "Buffalo Jack"; in South Carolina as the "Horse Crevalle"; at Fort Macon as the "Horse Mackerel "; about New York and on the coast of New Jersey as the &q
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