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 (1902) (14596173350)

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Title: 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
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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earlyvertical. There are 2 species, C. faber and C. :^onatus. The firstof these is the common spade-fish, angel-fish or porgee. The spade-fish ranges from Cape Cod to Rio Janeiro. It isoccasionally taken near New York, and a few have been caught intraps at Menemsha Bight, near Woods Hole, in August and Sep-tember. It is not uncommon about the mouth of Chesapeake Bayand increases in abundance southward to Key West and Pensacola.Among the West Indies it is known from Cuba, Santo Domingo,Jamaica, Martinique and Porto Rico, at which latter place it iscalled Paguala and is common everywhere in suitable places.h has been recorded also from the coasts c ^ Texas and Guatemala. On the Florida coast the spade-fish is found through summerand fall in bays, about wharves, rock piles and old wreckswherever crustaceans abound. In October and November large ^ff ^^K, ^KHH^ / ^^L n 1 ^ V A^^l BLn^iftw 4 ^ \ ^ ^HESHHP ^ ■ ^ k «L V ^A»S 1^^^ l^i( ijisv^ in -:^m SPADE-FiSH, ChcBtodipterus faber. YuUNG
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Bl^ACK ASGEL-FISR. Pomacauthus arcu-itus. YOUNG The Spade-Fishes schools are seen along the sea-beaches, evidently leaving the coastfor warmer water, at which time they are caught with haul seines.In that region they probably spawn in early summer and theyoung are seen until October. The spade-fish reaches a length of 2 or 3 feet and a weightof 20 pounds, though examples of more than 2 feet are notoften seen. Very large examples were at one time regarded asbelonging to a different species, Ephippiis gigas. Within the last 30 years the spade-fish has come to be one ofthe most highly prized food-fishes, and it is now held in muchesteem by connoisseurs in Washington and New York, and inthe markets of most eastern cities when it is most abundantduring the summer months. Large examples of this species are remarkable in having theanterior interhaemal enormously developed into a thick bony mass. Colour, grayish or bluish; a dusky band across eye to throat;a second, similar but broader band,