. 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. Fishes -- North America. THE SAND LAUNCES Family XXIX. Ammodytides THE sand launces constitute a small family of small, saltwater fishes found chiefly in northern regions. The single genus, Am- modyles, contains 3 or 4 species on our northern coasts. A. alascanus occurs in the North Pacific. It reaches a length of 6 to 8 inches and is a delicious panfish. The common sand launce, sand eel, or lant (A. americanus).
. 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. Fishes -- North America. THE SAND LAUNCES Family XXIX. Ammodytides THE sand launces constitute a small family of small, saltwater fishes found chiefly in northern regions. The single genus, Am- modyles, contains 3 or 4 species on our northern coasts. A. alascanus occurs in the North Pacific. It reaches a length of 6 to 8 inches and is a delicious panfish. The common sand launce, sand eel, or lant (A. americanus). Common Sand Launce is abundant on our Atlantic Coast from Cape Hatteras northward. A. personatus is another Pacific species, being common from Monterey northward. It is particularly abundant on sandy shores about Unalaska where we have seined it in very great numbers. All these species are delicious little fishes, the flesh being firm and sweet, similar to that of the smelt. They swim in immense schools at the surface, and frequently imbed themselves in the sand where they often remain above low-water mark while the tide is out. Why they do this is not well understood, for they are wanderers, sometimes appearing in immense numbers on the coast and then disappearing as mys- teriously as they came. With their sharp noses and slender bodies they have little difficulty in imbedding themselves several inches deep in the soft sand. On the sands of Portobello, near Edinburgh, people take advantage of this habit, and when it is discovered that a shoal of sand-eels have hidden in the sand, they sally out, armed with spades, rakes, shovels, and forks and dig them out. When free of the sand they leap about with great agility, and the fun in catching them probably give rise to the say- ing, "as jolly as a sand-boy," 263. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
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