. The food and game fishes of New York: . ishes. They eat mostinland fishes the gar and the chub. The\- are particularly fond of gamefishes, and show the delicate taste of a connoisseur in their selections from choicetrout, bass, pickerel and shad. On their hunting excursions they overturn huge andsmall stones alike, working for hours if necessary, beneath which they find species ofshrimp and crayfish, of which tliey are iond. They are among the mostpowerful and rapid of swimmers. They attack the spawn of other fishes open-mouthed, and are even said to suck the eggs from a
. The food and game fishes of New York: . ishes. They eat mostinland fishes the gar and the chub. The\- are particularly fond of gamefishes, and show the delicate taste of a connoisseur in their selections from choicetrout, bass, pickerel and shad. On their hunting excursions they overturn huge andsmall stones alike, working for hours if necessary, beneath which they find species ofshrimp and crayfish, of which tliey are iond. They are among the mostpowerful and rapid of swimmers. They attack the spawn of other fishes open-mouthed, and are even said to suck the eggs from an impaled female. They areowl-like in their habits, committing their depredations at night. 37. Conger [Lcptoccphalns Linnaeus). Miirceim conifer , Syst. Nat., ed. X, I, 245, 1758. Conger occidcntalis DeKav, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 314, \)\. 53, fig. 172, 1842, very conger Goode, Fish it Fish. Ind. U. S., I, pi. 240, 1884; Jordan & Ever-MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 354, 1896, jil. VII, fig. 148, The Conger Kel occurs on both coasts of the Atlantic, on our coast extendingfrom Cape Cod to l^razil, but often coming into shallow bays. An isnoted in Great Egg Harbor Bay, where the fish is not rare in summer. It is some-times caught in Gravesend Bay also in summer, and occasional Indixiiluals are cap-tured on hand lines off .Soutliampton, L. I., by men fishing for sea bass and fishermen dislike to handle the sjjecies on account of its pugnacity and strength ;it snaps viciously at everything near it when capturetl in our waters: yet. strangelyenough, the writer has seen a hundred or more taken on trawl lines off the northcoast of France, in a boat at one time, and not one gave evidence of ferocity. In capti\-it\- in the aquarium the sea eel suffers severely from fungus attacks, THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 295 which arc not relieved by changing the fisli from salt water to fresh. Perhapsthe salinity of the w
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