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 . among the West Indies. It reaches a foot in length. Anotherspecies is the common mackerel scad, D. macarellus, which isfound in the warmer parts of the Atlantic. It strays northwardon our coast to Cape Cod. The genus Trachiirits has only 2 species within our limits,neither of much value as food. The xurel or saurel, T. symmetricus, is common on ourPacific Coast from San Francisco south to the Galapagos. In. summ


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 . among the West Indies. It reaches a foot in length. Anotherspecies is the common mackerel scad, D. macarellus, which isfound in the warmer parts of the Atlantic. It strays northwardon our coast to Cape Cod. The genus Trachiirits has only 2 species within our limits,neither of much value as food. The xurel or saurel, T. symmetricus, is common on ourPacific Coast from San Francisco south to the Galapagos. In. summer it is abundant in the San Francisco markets where itis regarded as a good food-fish. It reaches 2 feet tn length. 302 The Akule The Other species is T. irachurus, which is found in theNorth Atlantic, it is rare on our coast. The genus Trachurops differs from Carangus chiefly in themore elongate form. The single species, T. cnunenophthalmus,is a well-known fish of wide distribution. In the Atlantic it is


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