. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 2 2 4 AMERICAN FISHES. ; They are occasionally taken in lobster-pots. When cruising in Fish Commission yacht "Mollie," off Noman's Land, July 13, 1875, we observed numerous specimens swimming under floating spars and planks. Sometimes as many as from fifty to seventy-five were obseryed under a single spar, a cloud of shadowy black forms being plainly visible from the deck. We went out to them in a row-boat and succeeded in t
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 2 2 4 AMERICAN FISHES. ; They are occasionally taken in lobster-pots. When cruising in Fish Commission yacht "Mollie," off Noman's Land, July 13, 1875, we observed numerous specimens swimming under floating spars and planks. Sometimes as many as from fifty to seventy-five were obseryed under a single spar, a cloud of shadowy black forms being plainly visible from the deck. We went out to them in a row-boat and succeeded in taking thirteen of them in the course of a day. After the first thrusts of the dip- net they grew shy and sought refuge under the boat, under which they would sink far below our reach. A lull of a few moments would bring them back to the log under which they had clustered until disturbed again. When the boat was rowed away they followed in a close-swimming school until we gained full speed, when they suddenly turned, as if by one im- pulse, and swam back to the log or spar. Once they followed us about two hundred yards from the spar, and then leaving us retreated to their old shelter, reaching it some time before we could turn the boat and row back to it. I had before this supposed them to be quite unusual, but on that one day we must have seen, at the lowest computation, two hundred or two hundred and fifty. They doubtless have been given the name of Rudder-fish by the sailors who have seen them swimming about the sterns of becalmed Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896. New York, Standard book co.
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