. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. I - .â '; I it ^. THE ruMl'AXO. THE POMPANOES. " Lightly and liri;;htly they ^lide ami go The luingry ami keen im tlie top are leaping The \.uy and fat on tlie depths are ; William Mackwoktu I'nAnn, Tlu- Red Fisherman. 'T'HE Pompano, \s\\\\ its pleasing contours, its banner-like fins, antl its scales glistening with the brilliancy of polished silver and gold, is one
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. I - .â '; I it ^. THE ruMl'AXO. THE POMPANOES. " Lightly and liri;;htly they ^lide ami go The luingry ami keen im tlie top are leaping The \.uy and fat on tlie depths are ; William Mackwoktu I'nAnn, Tlu- Red Fisherman. 'T'HE Pompano, \s\\\\ its pleasing contours, its banner-like fins, antl its scales glistening with the brilliancy of polished silver and gold, is one of tiie loveliest of our summer visitors. It is not an angler'sfish, nor is it a food lisli of imjiortance from the commercial stand-point, yet it is con- fessedly th â king of table-fishes, commanding almost fabulous prices in the markets of our great cities, and esteemed more highly than salmon or l)ass, moon-fish or Spanish mackerel. It figures in angling literature as "the wood-cock ot the seas"âwherefore, the writer is unable to say. The genus Trachyiwtus, to which our Pompanoes belong, is widely dis- tributed through the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Indo-Atlantic regions. Three species are peculiar to Asiatic waters, three have been found only on our own Pacific coast, one is limited to the waters of western Africa, one to those of the Caribbean, while of the four which are abundant on the Atlantic coast of North America, one ranges the wide wt)rld over, occurring in warm waters everywhere, one is found on the California coast, and one in Africa. The genus is entirely unknown in the waters of Europe. The species of the Pacific coast, Trachynotiis. 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 Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896. Boston : Estes and Lauriat
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