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 . ize than the common shad, the various examplesseen measuring only 15 inches each in total length. Nothing is known of its habits except that it appears at Tusca-loosa, Alabama, in limited numbers early in April, and that the younghave been seen in salt water at Pensacola. GENUS BREVOORTIA GILLThe Menhadens Body elliptical, compressed, deepest anteriorly, tapering behind;head very large; cheek deeper than long; m
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 . ize than the common shad, the various examplesseen measuring only 15 inches each in total length. Nothing is known of its habits except that it appears at Tusca-loosa, Alabama, in limited numbers early in April, and that the younghave been seen in salt water at Pensacola. GENUS BREVOORTIA GILLThe Menhadens Body elliptical, compressed, deepest anteriorly, tapering behind;head very large; cheek deeper than long; mouth large, the lowerjaw included; no teeth; gillrakers very long and slender, denselyset, appearing to fill the mouth when it is opened; scales deeper ic8 Menhaden; Mossbunker; Pogy than long, closely imbricated, their exposed edges vertical andfluted or pectinated; dorsal fin low, rather posterior; anal finsmall; intestine long; peritoneum dusky. This genus contains only a few species, all inhabiting the At-lantic, and probably spawning in brackish water in the are coarse, herbivorous fishes, not greatly valued as food,but having several other very important Menhaden ; Mossbunker ; Pogy Brcvoortia tyraniuts (Latrobe) The menhaden occurs from Nova Scotia to Brazil, and is byiAX the most abundant fish on the eastern coast of the UnitedStates. Several hundred thousand have been taken in a singledraft of a purse-seine. A firm at Milford, Connecticut, capturedin 1870, 8,800,000; in 1871, 8,000,000; in 1872, 10,000,000, andin 1873, 12,000,000. In 1877, 3 sloops from New London seined13,000,000. Though this was an unprofitable year the PemaquidOil Company took 20,000,000, and the town of Booth Bay alonetook 50,000,000. Though no decrease was visible up to 1880, since that timemany fishermen believe a very great decrease has taken , however, has not been proved, and many intelligent ob-servers deny that any appreciable decrease has really occurred. The fo
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