. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. e sides of the shark. The Pilot-fish does not always leave the vessels on their approach toland. In summer, when the temperature of the sea-water is severaldegrees above the average. Pilots will follow ships to the south coast ofEngland into the harbor, where they are generally speedily attain a length of twelve inches only. When very young theirappearance differs so much from the mature fish that they have beendescribed as a distinct
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. e sides of the shark. The Pilot-fish does not always leave the vessels on their approach toland. In summer, when the temperature of the sea-water is severaldegrees above the average. Pilots will follow ships to the south coast ofEngland into the harbor, where they are generally speedily attain a length of twelve inches only. When very young theirappearance differs so much from the mature fish that they have beendescribed as a distinct genus, Nauclcrus. This fry is exceedingly commonin the open ocean, and constantly obtained in the tow-net; therefore thePilot-fish retains its pelagic habits also during the spawning season, andsome of the spawn found by voyagers floating on the surface is, withoutdoubt, derived from this species.* The Pilot-fish has been observed in one or two instances about NewYork, and also has been recorded from South Carolina. It is, however,rare in the Western Atlantic, and our museums have very i^iw specimens. *Gunther : Study of Fishes, p.
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