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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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JackChannel near Key West, where very large ones can be taken by usingsardines and pilchards for bait. Colour, very dark green above, middle part of each scale brassyblack, the edge broadly pearly white; below lateral line the duskinessof middle of scale becomes brassy, and lower grayish; blue stripebelow eye in very young; top of head blackish olive; dorsal fin bluishblack; caudal violaceous or maroon-black, or bluish; anal rosy; pec-toral pale flesh-colour. Fishes from deep water are much redder. Dog Snapper; Jocu Lutianus jocu (Bloch & Schneider) This excellent food-fish is known from Bahia north to the FloridaKeys, occasionally straying north to Woods Hole. At Key West,where it is not very common, it reaches a weight of 20 pounds,though the average is much smaller. It is found most frequently infall and winter about Key West. It does not seem to be abundantabout Porto Rico, where it is called pargo Colorado. Colour, olivaceous above, rosy or brick-red on side, paler below, 408
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SCHOOLMASTER, Lmhiinis apodns Schoolmaster; Caji much flushed so that the general hue is coppery red; side with verynarrow Hght cross-bars; a line of small round bluish spots below eyeand across opercJe; dorsal and caudal fins brick-red, the soft dorsaldusky at base; anal and ventrals yellowish. Schoolmaster; CajiLutianus apodits (Walbaum) The schoolmaster is one of the most richly coloured and beautifulof the snappers, and is withal a very interesting and attractive fish,it is known from Bahia northward through the West Indies tosouthern Florida. It sometimes strays in the Gulf Stream to WoodsHole. It is found at Key West and in Indian River, but is not com-mon in either place. It is one of the most abundant snappers aboutPorto Rico, where it is known as pargo amarilla. The species attainsa weight of 7 or 8 pounds, though the average is 3 pounds or less. Ittakes the hook readily and with vigor, and good sport may be hadwith it down the bay near Key West. Colour of adult, reddish brow

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