. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Fig. 1 - Morone saxatilis. Rockfish in Maryland, striped bass in California. Another category of common names might be called coined or invented names. Many kinds of fishes are known to scientists alone and have only Latin names. If, in writing of one of these animals a common name is re- quired, one is invented. The American Fish- eries Society (1960) has listed all known kinds of fishes living in the United States and C anada to a depth of 100 fathoms. Some of the fishes on this list previously lacked any common name, and others shared a
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Fig. 1 - Morone saxatilis. Rockfish in Maryland, striped bass in California. Another category of common names might be called coined or invented names. Many kinds of fishes are known to scientists alone and have only Latin names. If, in writing of one of these animals a common name is re- quired, one is invented. The American Fish- eries Society (1960) has listed all known kinds of fishes living in the United States and C anada to a depth of 100 fathoms. Some of the fishes on this list previously lacked any common name, and others shared a common name with one or more species. In order to insure a single common name for every species on the list, a number of names were invented. An- other reason for inventing names is the im- portation into the United States of species from non-English spe aking regions. The aquarium trade is the best example; a brief perusal of any authoritative book on aquarium fishes (for example, Sterba, 1967) will show many fishes from South America and Africa for which English language names have been invented. In a recent popular booklet on Californiandeepseafishes, Fitch and Laven- berg (1968) invented common names for species that previously lacked them. In some situations, scientists who describe a previ- ously unknown species and give it a Latin name also invent a common name. This prac - tice is very common in Fig. 2 - Oncorhynchus tshawytscha chinook in Alaska. King salmon in California, The chief problem, however, lies with fishes that have too many names rather than with those that require invented ones. The commercial fishing industry, State and Fed- eral agencies, and writers communicate about fishes chiefly by using common names. When a species has more than one common name, and there is a clear need for only one, it may be a major undertaking to decide which should be used. In some instances one of many local names is selected, in others an invented name is chosen. The
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