. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE SQUETEAGUES. 117 and it is probable that the name " Sea Trout " will always be used. Genio Scott proposed the name "Spotted Silver-sides," which is not particularly appropriate, and which no one but himself has ever used. Ml / . •t-r »» -. S, THE SPOTTED SQUETEAGt'E. The history of American fishes contains very little respecting the habits •of this species, although it is so important an element of food
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE SQUETEAGUES. 117 and it is probable that the name " Sea Trout " will always be used. Genio Scott proposed the name "Spotted Silver-sides," which is not particularly appropriate, and which no one but himself has ever used. Ml / . •t-r »» -. S, THE SPOTTED SQUETEAGt'E. The history of American fishes contains very little respecting the habits •of this species, although it is so important an element of food to the inhabitants of the Southern coast. We have, however, been favored by Dr. H. C. Yarrow with notes made at Fort Macon, N. C, in which many of the deficiencies in our information are supplied. According to his account, the Spotted Trout is not found in that locality during the winter, or only in small numbers, making its first appearance in February on its way from the south, and attaining its greatest abundance about the middle of April. Little is known of its rate of growth, although, according to some ob- servers, this increase amounts to about six inches per annum ; so that a fish of average size, or eighteen inches, may be considered as three years old. There is no perceptible difference in the sexes as to rate of growth or general appearance, excepting in the fuller belly of the female. Dr. Yarrow states that they come from the south in the spring and pass through the inlets on the flood tide, the date of their first appearance varying with that of the opening of spring. They remain in the vicinity of the inlets and sounds on the coast of North Carolina until about May. when they gradually proceed northward, extending their journey as far as the shores of Long Island, where a few only are taken, although, perhaps, their number may be considerable. They reappear on the coast of North Carolina in September, and thence proceed south, following the same course as th
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