. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. Xf&GPsi£$gsa&. THE SEA BASSES. So gaat het hier : dat's Werelts overvloed, (Waar raee de Mensch word koninglijk gevoed Door guile gunst des milden gevers) doet Hem vaak vergeeten. Steenbrassem, Steur en Dartien en Knor-haan. En Zee-Baars die geen vorst sal laten slaan En Kabellau : en Salm, die (wel gebraan). Is vet, en voedig. Jakob Steendam, t' Lou/van Nieiu Nederland, 1661. 4 4r¥"1HE SEA BASS is another gentlema
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. Xf&GPsi£$gsa&. THE SEA BASSES. So gaat het hier : dat's Werelts overvloed, (Waar raee de Mensch word koninglijk gevoed Door guile gunst des milden gevers) doet Hem vaak vergeeten. Steenbrassem, Steur en Dartien en Knor-haan. En Zee-Baars die geen vorst sal laten slaan En Kabellau : en Salm, die (wel gebraan). Is vet, en voedig. Jakob Steendam, t' Lou/van Nieiu Nederland, 1661. 4 4r¥"1HE SEA BASS is another gentleman among his finny comrades," wrote Frank Forester. He belongs to the family Serranidce, the members of which are similar in form and habits to the Perches, from which they are distinguished by certain anatomical characters, scarcely tangible to persons not expert in ichthyology. This family contains a very large number of species^some of which are to be found in all the tropi- cal and temperate seas. On our Atlantic coast there are over twenty kinds, while in California, there are four, at least, which are of economic importance. The Sea Bass is also known south of Cape Hatteras as the " Blackfish," and is the most important species on our coast. In the Middle States the Sea Bass is called "Black Will," " Black Harry," and " Hannahills ;" about Newport and New Bedford, "Bluefish," and at New Bedford also, "Rock ; Curiously enough, the Southern name, " Blackfish," is in use at Oak Bluffs, on Martha's Vineyard, and, it is said, also in New Jer-. 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. Boston : Estes and Lauriat
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