American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . ae. Manyof the species are of food-value, though some are reputed poison-ous. Many of them are viviparous, the young being producedwhen about \ inch long. The family is most numerously represented on our Californiacoast. In our waters are 8 genera with about 85 species, only asmall proportion, however, are of much, if any, food-value. Noneof them is regarded as a game-fish. We treat the family onlybriefly. a. Do
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . ae. Manyof the species are of food-value, though some are reputed poison-ous. Many of them are viviparous, the young being producedwhen about \ inch long. The family is most numerously represented on our Californiacoast. In our waters are 8 genera with about 85 species, only asmall proportion, however, are of much, if any, food-value. Noneof them is regarded as a game-fish. We treat the family onlybriefly. a. Dorsal spines more than 12. h. Dorsal spines 15 or 16; vertebrae about 12+19; Sebastes, 495 bb. Dorsal spines 13 or 14; Sebasiodes, 4()6 The only important species of the family on our AtlanticCoast is Sebastes mannus, known as the rose-fish, redfish, snap-per, red perch, Norway haddock, hemdurgan, bream or John Dory. It is a fish of wide distribution and is found in northernEurope and from Iceland to middle New Jersey. It is most 495 The Rockfishes abundant northward, where it is a shallow water species; south-ward it is found only in deeper water, and is less common. Its / /^-^. temperature range conforms pretty closely with that oi thehalibut. The roseflsh reaches 2 feet in length, though the average ismuch less. Their food consists chiefly of crustaceans, small fish,and mollusks to some extent, and in turn, the young of thisspecies constitute an important part of the food of the cod, andthey are at all ages preyed upon by halibut and other largepredaceous fishes of cold regions. The rosefish ranks well as a food-fish, and considerablequantities of them are taken on the New England coast. Themost extensive fisheries are on the Greenland coast, where theflesh is highly esteemed, and the spines are used as may be caught on hand or trawl-lines, with almost anykind of bait. They breed in summer in deep holes in Massa-chusetts Bay, and elsewhere along the New England c
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