. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 364 AMERICAN FISHES. Horse-mackerel, a name used on our coasts with the greatest carelessness, being applied to Elops saurus, Anoplopoma fimbria, and Merlucius pro- ductus, as well as to various scombroids and carangoid fishes. It reaches a length of about thirty inches and a weight of ten pounds, its average weight being five or six. It is found from the Island of Santa Cruz to Alaska, being very irregular in its appearance, some years very ab
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. 364 AMERICAN FISHES. Horse-mackerel, a name used on our coasts with the greatest carelessness, being applied to Elops saurus, Anoplopoma fimbria, and Merlucius pro- ductus, as well as to various scombroids and carangoid fishes. It reaches a length of about thirty inches and a weight of ten pounds, its average weight being five or six. It is found from the Island of Santa Cruz to Alaska, being very irregular in its appearance, some years very abundant and at other times wanting altogether. It is exceedingly voracious, feed- ing on all sorts of small fishes and squids. The stomach is always filled almost to bursting. It spawns in the spring, and its arrival near the coast always precedes the deposition of the spawn. It probably then retires to deeper water. Its value as a food-fish is very little. It is scarcely salable in the mar- ket of San Francisco. Its flesh is very soft, and it is always ragged-looking when shipped. Nothing was learned as to the quality of its flesh, but it probably differs little from the Atlantic form Merlucius 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; Gill, Theodore, 1837-1914. ed. Boston, L. C. Page
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