. 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 -- United States. Menhaden; Mossbunker; Pogy than long, closely imbricated, their exposed edges vertical and fluted or pectinated; dorsal fin low, rather posterior; anal fin small; intestine long; peritoneum dusky. This genus contains only a few species, all inhabiting the At- lantic, and probably spawning in brackish water in the spring. They are coarse, herbivorous fishes, not greatly valued as food, bu
. 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 -- United States. Menhaden; Mossbunker; Pogy than long, closely imbricated, their exposed edges vertical and fluted or pectinated; dorsal fin low, rather posterior; anal fin small; intestine long; peritoneum dusky. This genus contains only a few species, all inhabiting the At- lantic, and probably spawning in brackish water in the spring. They are coarse, herbivorous fishes, not greatly valued as food, but having several other very important Menhaden; Mossbunker; Pogy Brcvoortia tyrannns (Latrobe) The menhaden occurs from Nova Scotia to Brazil, and is by f^ir the most abundant fish on the eastern coast of the United States. Several hundred thousand have been taken in a single draft of a purse-seine. A firm at Milford, Connecticut, captured in 1870, 8,800,000; in 1871, 8,000,000; in 1872, 10,000,000, and in 1873, 12,000,000. In 1877, 3 sloops from New London seined 13,000,000. Though this was an unprofitable year the Pemaquid Oil Company took 20,000,000, and the town of Booth Bay alone took 50,000,000. Though no decrease was visible up to 1880, since that time many fishermen believe a very great decrease has taken place. This, however, has not been proved, and many intelligent ob- servers deny that any appreciable decrease has really occurred. The food of the menhaden consists almost wholly of plank- ton—the minute unicellular algae, and the smaller animals which swarm in untold myriads at the surface of the sea, particularly along the coasts. 109. 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 Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
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