. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . om six to ten pounds. It ranges from SantaBarbara to Alaska, being very abundant everywhere north of Point Con-ception. It lives about rocky ]Dlaces, and sometimes in considerabledepths, and spawns in summer. It feeds upon fishes and Crustacea and isexcessively voracious. It often swallows a red rockfish when the latter is THE ROSE-FISH AND ITS AILIES. 271 on the hook, and is thus taken. Like other large fishes, it is subject tothe attacks of the hag-
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . om six to ten pounds. It ranges from SantaBarbara to Alaska, being very abundant everywhere north of Point Con-ception. It lives about rocky ]Dlaces, and sometimes in considerabledepths, and spawns in summer. It feeds upon fishes and Crustacea and isexcessively voracious. It often swallows a red rockfish when the latter is THE ROSE-FISH AND ITS AILIES. 271 on the hook, and is thus taken. Like other large fishes, it is subject tothe attacks of the hag-fish [Polistrofrcma). As a food-fish it holds a highrank, being considered rather su])erior to the rockfish. From its greatabundance, it is one of the most important fishes on the Pacific coast. Zaniolepis latipinnis ranges from San Francisco northward in deep reaches a length of about a foot, and is of no economic value. The bright-colored little fish, Oxylebiiispictus, ranges from Santa Bar-bara to Vancouvers Island, living among rocks near shore. It reachesa length of six inches, is rarely taken and is then used only for
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