The food and game fishes of New York: . ) The Bluefish is so active in its movements that it is difificult to keep it incaptivity. As with the species of Caranx and Scrio/a, however, its longevitydepends on range and temperature ; in a large body of water, not colder than 60° inwinter, it can be maintained easily. 94. Crab-eater; Cobia [Rin/iycciitroii caiiaihis Linnaeus). Centronotus spiiiosus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 490, pi. Ill, fig. 9, 1815, New (?//</////<-(7 CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 334, pi. 233, 1831, Brazil; , N.
The food and game fishes of New York: . ) The Bluefish is so active in its movements that it is difificult to keep it incaptivity. As with the species of Caranx and Scrio/a, however, its longevitydepends on range and temperature ; in a large body of water, not colder than 60° inwinter, it can be maintained easily. 94. Crab-eater; Cobia [Rin/iycciitroii caiiaihis Linnaeus). Centronotus spiiiosus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 490, pi. Ill, fig. 9, 1815, New (?//</////<-(7 CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 334, pi. 233, 1831, Brazil; , N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 113, pi. 25, fig. 77, 1842.£/<7n7A-ci/^w^/i? JoRD.^N & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 418, 1883; Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C, VII, 144, pi. II, fig. 13, 1888; 19th Rept. N. Y. Comm. Fish., 270, pi. XX, fig. 25, 1890, young. Great Egg Harbor caiiadiis Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 948, 1896, pi. CXLVIII, fig. 401, 1900 ; Smith, Bull. U. S. F. XVII, 98, crau-eater. Color olive brown ; sides with a distinct broad dark band and a less distinct bandabove and below it; lower parts silvery. The Crab-eater inhabits all warm seas, occasionally appearing on our northerncoast in summer and ranging northward to Massachusetts Bay. Individuals areoccasionally taken at Woods Hole, Mass. Dr. Mitchill had a specimen of the Crab-eater which was caught in New YorkBay June 11, 1815. He found in its stomach 20 spotted Sand Crabs and severalyoung Flounders. The fish was eaten at his table, and pronounced one of the besthe had ever tasted. This example was 31 inches long. Dr. DeKay styles it theNorthern Crab-eater. The specimen described by him was captured in BostonHarbor, and placed in a live car with other fish, chiefly Porgies [Stcnotoinus chrysops). ?8o SKVENTH KKPORT OF TIIK KOKKST, FISH AXi) GAME COMMISSION. and it destroyed and ate every fisli in the car. Dr. A. K. Fisher of Washington hasfound the young of the Crab-eater
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