. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 290 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. part of opercle; a broad black bar from front of dorsal downward to upercle, connecting with black opercular blotch; another and much broader from fifth to seventh dorsal spine nearly vertically down- ward to belly; another from ninth t twelfth dorsal spine to vent; two others from soft dorsal to soft anal, these fusing below; tins all red, the dorsal and anal encroached upon by the black sidebars; a short black area behind eye: base of pectoral b
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 290 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. part of opercle; a broad black bar from front of dorsal downward to upercle, connecting with black opercular blotch; another and much broader from fifth to seventh dorsal spine nearly vertically down- ward to belly; another from ninth t twelfth dorsal spine to vent; two others from soft dorsal to soft anal, these fusing below; tins all red, the dorsal and anal encroached upon by the black sidebars; a short black area behind eye: base of pectoral blotched with blackish. This species reaches a length of 2 feet or more and is known to range from Monterey Bay to Naha Bay. Recorded (1884) by Bean from Mary Island. i Family 31. ANOPL0P0MATID£. 91. Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas). Black Cod. The black cod. coalfish, beshow, or skil, as it is variously called, occurs on our Pacific Coast from Monterey Bay to the Aleutian Islands. It was taken by the Albatross at station 2809, in 1888, at Cordova Bay in 1807. and at Loring, Pyramid Harbor, and Taku Harbor in 1900. One specimen from each place is in the collection. Bean, in 1882, records it from Sitka and Wrangell and in 1884 from Hassler Harbor. We also have one specimen (no. 02825), 14 inches long, taken with hook and line over the rail off Fort Rupert (1903). This species is known at Loring and Taku as black cod; at San Francisco it is called candle-fish, and on Puget Sound, horse mackerel; it is sometimes sold in the markets as Spanish mackerel; in the Straits of Fuca it is known as beshow by the Neah Bay Indians. It is found usually in rather deep water and is perhaps most abundant in the Puget Sound region. It is seen oftener in the Seattle markets than in those of any other place. It attains a length of 18 to 20 inches and a weight of 5 pounds. As a food fish it occupies only a moderate rank, the flesh being rather dry and tasteless. On Puget. Sound, however, where it reaches
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