. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. .; 4o6 AM ERICA y FISHES. herring, or arc used for manure. In the Chesapeake region they are not highly esteemed, although great (luantities are sold by hawkers, especially in tlie cities, where people are not well informed, under the name of " ; At the l)eginning of the season hundreds of men may be seen going about the city of Washington with strings of these fish, which they cry
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. .; 4o6 AM ERICA y FISHES. herring, or arc used for manure. In the Chesapeake region they are not highly esteemed, although great (luantities are sold by hawkers, especially in tlie cities, where people are not well informed, under the name of " ; At the l)eginning of the season hundreds of men may be seen going about the city of Washington with strings of these fish, which they cry for Shad, and which with great insolence they press upon such would- be purchasers as are inclined to ([uestion their genuineness. In the pound- nets of the Chesajieake in the beginning of the season they are caught in immense numbers, and are shipi)ed to the markets with the true Shad until their price falls below three cents apiece, after which they are sold with the Herring, one counting as two In our waters the most important member of this family is the Tarpum, Mt'ga/()/>s thrissoiiics, an immense herring-like fish, which occurs in the Western Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico, ranging north to Cape Cod and south at least to Northern Brazil. It is somewhat abundant in the West Indies, and stragglers have been taken as far to the eastward as the This species attains the length of five or six feet, and is covered with enormous circular scales of one inch to two inches and a half in diameter, the exposed portions of which are covered with a silvery epidermis. The fish, when alive, presents a very brilliant metallic ap- pearance, and the scales are much prized by curiosity hunters and for fancy work in the Florida curiosity shops. They are a staple article of trade, selling for from ten to twenty-five cents each, the price paid to the fishermen being about fifty cents per dozen. The sailors' name for this fish, by which same name it is also known at K
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