Identifier: annualreportof6189919newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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s are broken into shortlengths, but it is, like the adult, a beautiful fish. The food of the bonito is small fish. Tl>e Batter-Fisi). The butter-fish, harvest-fish or dollar-fish is common along our shores in summer,when it is frequently taken by the fishermen in nets in abundance. It is a smallspecies, rarely half a pound in weight, but held in some esteem as a food fish, althoughrather soft, not standing transportation well. As specimens alive in an aquarium itis a constant delight, the play of colors on its sides reminding one of the flashes ofcolored lights from a fine opal. In the South a related form is frequently kept alive in floating cars by its negrocaptors and killed and dressed for the purchaser. A look into the well-stockedfloating cars of the Key West fishermen, where fishes as gay as parrots or tropicalbutterflies may be seen alive, is a revelation to a Northerner. Our friend theharvest-fish may often be seen among the gay tropical inhabitants of these coralseas. •
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J o o cl X Z C) S ■j) CO < la Z Qroo^ 3etcher. The common brook sucker or black sucker is an abundant and well-known fish.It makes its way up the brooks and small streams in the spring to spawn and maythen be taken in large numbers. It is a large fish for the small streams in which itspawns, and one may often see specimens weighing from three to five pounds inwater so shallow that their backs are out. As a food fish it is almost worthless in some waters, being soft, bony and flavor-less. In many places it is captured by the cart-load and used upon the land asfertilizer. The young of this species make excellent bait for the pike and bass. 3alt~Wafer Percl). The cunner, chogset or salt-water perch is one of the most abundant of fishesalong our rocky shores, and one which is a favorite with the younger anglers. Itcan be caught with hook and line at almost any pier or about any wreck along thecoast as far south as N

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