. 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; Fishes; Fishes. Common Weakfish ; Squeteague ; Sea-trout /'. Soft portions of dorsal and anal more or less closely scaled. c. Colour, nearly uniform silvery iiothns, 4S9 tc. Colour, brownish silvery above, witli many dark brown spots ar- ranged in undulating streaks regalis, 456 bb. Soft portions of dorsal and anal scaleless. J. Colour, not uniform; grayish or silvery, the back with distinct darker spot
. 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; Fishes; Fishes. Common Weakfish ; Squeteague ; Sea-trout /'. Soft portions of dorsal and anal more or less closely scaled. c. Colour, nearly uniform silvery iiothns, 4S9 tc. Colour, brownish silvery above, witli many dark brown spots ar- ranged in undulating streaks regalis, 456 bb. Soft portions of dorsal and anal scaleless. J. Colour, not uniform; grayish or silvery, the back with distinct darker spots, lines, or reticulations. ('. Soft dorsal without spots reticiilatus, 459 cc. Soft dorsal with conspicuous I'ound black spots .. .vebiilosits, 457 lid. Colour, nearly uniform, bluish gray above, silvery below. /'. Caudal fin somewhat lunate in adult, the middle rays shortest, but somewhat produced in the young parvipinnis, 460 ff. Caudal fin always double-truncate or double-concave, the middle rays somewhat produced macdonaldi, 460 aa. Scales comparatively small, the lateral line with 70 to 90 pores, the number of scales 85 to 130 nobilh, 458. Common Weakfish; Squeteague; Sea-trout Cyiwscioii regalis (Bloch & Schneider) The squeteague is found throughout the entire length of our Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and ranges as far north as the Bay of Fundy. It has varied greatly in abundance within the last hundred years, biit is always one of our commonest and best-known fishes. At certain tiines and places it is exceedmgly abundant. A catch of over 200,000 pounds in one day in 18S1 two miles off Rockaway Beach is on record. It is rare in the Gulf of Mexico, but from Florida to Long Island it is usually abundant. Although essentially a coast and still-water fish, the squeteague sometimes runs up tidal waters and prefers the vicmity of river-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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