American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . , the sidecrossed by 5 nearly jet-black crossbars all continued upon thedorsal fin; anal fin black. In the other the ground-colour is palechrome-yellow, the vertical base not so dark. Some individualsare dirty gray and the bars are not well defined. 500 The Greenlings The Atka mackerel, which is of course no mackerel at all,is an excellent food-fish, especially fine when salted. Thereseems to be no good reason w
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . , the sidecrossed by 5 nearly jet-black crossbars all continued upon thedorsal fin; anal fin black. In the other the ground-colour is palechrome-yellow, the vertical base not so dark. Some individualsare dirty gray and the bars are not well defined. 500 The Greenlings The Atka mackerel, which is of course no mackerel at all,is an excellent food-fish, especially fine when salted. Thereseems to be no good reason why it may not become the objectof an important fishery. The genus Hexagrammos, which contains the true greenlingsor rock trouts, differs from Pleurogrammits chiefly in having thedorsal fin deeply notched or divided. The species may be knownby the presence of 5 lateral lines on each side. All the speciesattain a considerable size and all are of value as food. Theyinhabit the North Pacific on both coasts, extending on the Ameri-can side south to California. Hexagrammos decagrammiis is one of the most valuable is known as the rock trout, boregat, or bodeiron. It reaches. a length of 18 inches and is found from Kadiak Island to PointConception. It is particularly abundant about San Francisco, andis a common food-fish. The sexes are very unlike in ociografumus, the Alaska green-fish, occurs among the
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