. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. Si° AMERICAN FISHES. more advanced ventrals and its general whitish color, but its back is a dark iron-gray. It often grows to a length of a foot and becomes very fat and oily. Notwithstanding, it is regarded by Jordan and Evermann as. nULACHON. " an excellent panfish, unsurpassed by any fish whatsoever in delicacy of flesh, which is far superior to that of the trout. The flesh is very oily, but the oil has a very attractive flavor. It is


. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. Si° AMERICAN FISHES. more advanced ventrals and its general whitish color, but its back is a dark iron-gray. It often grows to a length of a foot and becomes very fat and oily. Notwithstanding, it is regarded by Jordan and Evermann as. nULACHON. " an excellent panfish, unsurpassed by any fish whatsoever in delicacy of flesh, which is far superior to that of the trout. The flesh is very oily, but the oil has a very attractive flavor. It is sometimes extracted and used as a substitute for cod-liver oil. It is, however, solid and lard-like at ordinary ; The oil has been even quite widely used for the same purposes as cod-liver oil, and in 1881 was imported into England by the well-known chemists, or druggists as we would call them, Burgoyne and Burbridge. The demand, however, for some unknown reason, does not seem to have secured a permanent foothold in the drug market. The name Candlefish is due to the fact that the dried bodies are often utilized by the Indian as candles. The name is or at least was also a trade-name for those salted and exported 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; Gill, Theodore, 1837-1914. ed. Boston, L. C. Page


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