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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
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nt, and in turn, the young of thisspecies constitute an important part of the food of the cod, andthey are at all ages preyed upon by halibut and other largepredaceous fishes of cold regions. The rosefish ranks well as a food-fish, and considerablequantities of them are taken on the New England coast. Themost extensive fisheries are on the Greenland coast, where theflesh is highly esteemed, and the spines are used as needles.They may be caught on hand or trawl-lines, with almost anykind of bait. They breed in summer in deep holes in Massa-chusetts Bay, and elsewhere along the New England coast. This fish may be known by its nearly uniform orange-redcolour, and its spiny head. The genus Sebastodes is the largest in the family, containingas it does not fewer than 56 species, all occurring on our PacificCoast from Alaska to Lower California. They are all usuallyknown as rockfish, and several are of considerable value as food-fishes. They are all closely related, and only a few of the 496
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The Rockfishes more important species will be mentioned here. Sebastodes pau-cispinis, the bocaccio, large and swift, is abundant in California.Sebastodes flavidus, the yellowtail rockfish, reaching a length of2 feet, is one of the most valuable species. It is abundant fromSan Francisco to San Diego. 5. mysiinus, the black rockfish, is the most abundant species

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