The food and game fishes of New York: . ackish above, silvery gray on the sides, often blotched and tinged with yellow;fins dusky gray, sometimes mingled with yellow. The Flasher is a large species, found in all warm seas, ranging on our coast fromCape Cod to Panama ; it reaches the length of 3 feet and is used for food. AtWoods Hole, according to Dr. .Smitlr, it is vcr\- rarely taken. Specimens weresecured, however, in August, 1873, December, 1875, September 20, 1886, and inAugust, i8go. The individual obtained in 1886 was caught in a trap at Menemsha,Marthas Vineyard. The Rhode Island Fish C
The food and game fishes of New York: . ackish above, silvery gray on the sides, often blotched and tinged with yellow;fins dusky gray, sometimes mingled with yellow. The Flasher is a large species, found in all warm seas, ranging on our coast fromCape Cod to Panama ; it reaches the length of 3 feet and is used for food. AtWoods Hole, according to Dr. .Smitlr, it is vcr\- rarely taken. Specimens weresecured, however, in August, 1873, December, 1875, September 20, 1886, and inAugust, i8go. The individual obtained in 1886 was caught in a trap at Menemsha,Marthas Vineyard. The Rhode Island Fish Commission has a specimen weighing6 pounds and measuring 22 inches, which was taken September 10, 1900, in a trapoff Prudence Island, Narragansett Bay. Tlie example described and figured byMitchill was taken at Powles Hook, N. J. According to Mitchill specimensweighing 4 or 5 pounds were occasional!)^ secured, and the fish was sometimescalled Black Grunt. DcKay knew the fish only from the accounts of it givenbv Mitchill and Holbrook. Hi. THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 45 Il6. Red Snapper (NcoiiKenis blackfordi Goode & Bean). LiitjaiiKS /ihu-kjiin/ii(,<.-)in) Dean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mui., I, 176, 1878 (full description of adult); II, IJ7, 138, 1879, characters and measurements of young; GooDE, (lame Fishes N. .\., 16, 1878, with colored (tjaiiii$ blackfordi Jord. & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 549, 1SS3; ]5ean, 19th Rept. Comm. Fish. N. Y., 263, pi. XVI, fig. 20, nya Jordan & Evermaxx, 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1264, 1898, pi. CXCVII, fig. 516, 1900 (not Bodiaiiiis aya Bloch, Ichth., 227, 1790); H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100, 1898. Color uniform .scarlet. Center of scales lighter, also the belly, which is silvery ;inside of axil of pectoral darker maroon.
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