. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. THE STRIPED BASSE. 16' clement season of winter, but the fishery is not so productive as in Maine, whence the best in the Boston market are annu ally ; The following is from the Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society, by Dr. Mitchill. " MitchilVs Perch, Striped Basse or Rock-Fish, (Perca Mitchilli), with eight parallel lines from head to tail. One th
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. THE STRIPED BASSE. 16' clement season of winter, but the fishery is not so productive as in Maine, whence the best in the Boston market are annu ally ; The following is from the Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society, by Dr. Mitchill. " MitchilVs Perch, Striped Basse or Rock-Fish, (Perca Mitchilli), with eight parallel lines from head to tail. One the largest and most excellent of the New York fishes: m;iy be found from the weight of an ounce to that of seventy pounds and upwards. The position of the ventral fins rather behind the pectoral, made me once incline to place him in the abdominales. His second gill plate is finely serrated. That circumstance, if he remained among the thoracic, would rank him among the percse, and when I decided in favor i,{ changing his order, I was obliged to constitute a new genus for him, which I called roccus. But having since found that there are fishes whose ventral fins are further back on the abdo- men than this, that are nevertheless considered as thoracic, I have, on reconsideration, persuaded myself it will be most correct to place him among his compeers of the perch ; After a similar description to that given by Smith, our naturalist continues: " But one of the most obvious and distinguishing features of this fish, is the striped appearance of his body. From head to tail his back is marked by lon- gitudinal lines. The ground color is pale, brown, whitish and silvery. On this are delineated the aforesaid lines in parallel rows. These rows, at some seasons, appear black, and make a strong contrast. At other times they are more faint, and seem to be faded into a reddish brown. When the brown thus predominates, dark specks or spots can be traced at regular distances alon
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