The food and game fishes of New York: . suited for a captive life andcan endure a temperature of /i jj in the salt water. THE FOOD AND GAMF. FLSHES OF NEW YORK. ?63 In 1898 the species was found for the State Museum at all Long Island localitiesvisited, Peconic Bay, Mecox Bay, the ocean at Southampton, and throughout GreatSouth Bay. Small individuals are sold in the markets as Whitebait. In the timeof DeKay the fish was called Anchovy and Sand Smelt and was esteemed a savoryfood. Twent)- years before he wrote of the fishes of New York, it was caught fromthe wharves and sold for bait. 80. Strip
The food and game fishes of New York: . suited for a captive life andcan endure a temperature of /i jj in the salt water. THE FOOD AND GAMF. FLSHES OF NEW YORK. ?63 In 1898 the species was found for the State Museum at all Long Island localitiesvisited, Peconic Bay, Mecox Bay, the ocean at Southampton, and throughout GreatSouth Bay. Small individuals are sold in the markets as Whitebait. In the timeof DeKay the fish was called Anchovy and Sand Smelt and was esteemed a savoryfood. Twent)- years before he wrote of the fishes of New York, it was caught fromthe wharves and sold for bait. 80. Striped Mullet iMngi! ccphalus Linnaius). Miigil crphaliis Bkax, Ann. N. Y. State Mus., 103, 1900. Ml/oil a//>it/a , 19th Rept. Commrs. Fish. N. Y., 272, pi. XXI, fig. 26, 1890. Afi/gi/ UiH-atiis , N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 144, pi. 15, fig. 42, 1842, New York. Color, darkish blue above; the sides silvery: exposed part of scales, especially ofeight or ten upper series, darker than body color, causing a striped appearance. SI RIPED MULLET. belly and lower part of sides yellowish ; ventral fins yellowish ; soft dorsal, anal andventrals dusky ; tip and base of pectoral dusky. The Striped Mullet grows to the length of 2 feet, but the average size in NewYork waters is much less. The fish is known in Great South \\a\ as Mullet and Jumping Mullet; the nameMullet is applied to it also in the Gulf of Mexico, and is in general use along theeast coast; it is known in the Chesapeake as Mullet or Fatback. The latter name isprobably applied to more than one species. The Striped Mullet is known on our coast from Cape Cod to the Gulf of young are much more abundant than the adults. In Great South Bay wefound the species not uncommon ; two examples were taken at the mouth of SwanCreek, September 12. Several schools were present. We were informed that theyappear occasionally, and one gentleman of Patchogue was very successful in takingthis and its allied species with ho
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