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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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ome specimens;dorsal rosy, pale at the base, its edge yellow; caudal rosy, dusky pos-teriorly, the tip sometimes blood-red; pectoral pale yellow; ventralsand anal pale rosy, the latter yellowish posteriorly. Red Snapper Liitianus aya (Bloch) Of all the snappers, this is by far the most important and bestknown. It reaches a length of 2 to 3 feet and a weight of 10 to 35pounds. Its range extends from Long Island to Brazil, but its centreof abundance is in the Gulf of Mexico, in rather deep water on therocky banks off the west coast of Florida and the coasts of Campecheand Yucatan. On the American coast it is known everywhere as thered snapper. To the Spaniards it is the pargo Colorado, while in theHavana market it is the pargo guachinango, or Mexican snapper, be-cause it is brought to that city from the Mexican coast. It is not com-mon in Cuban and Porto Rican waters, and appears to be rare off thecoast of Brazil. Off the east coast of Florida and the coast of Georgiait is abundant. 410
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H f- Red Snapper The history of the growth of the red-snapper fishery is an inter-esting one. In the late forties or early fifties some New London fisher-men ventured into the Gulf of Mexico, with their small sloops such asthey used in the cod fisheries, none over 15 or 20 tons measurement.They fell in with the red snappers off the west coast of Florida, andmade good catches, which they marketed at New Orleans at goodprices. Others were induced to leave the whirling tide-rips of theVineyard Shoals and wet a line on the Snapper Banks. Later, wintervoyages were made, in better and more fully equipped smacks, andthese for a time held a monopoly of the trade. This trade, however,was local and mostly retail, in New Orleans and Mobile, and not untilin the early seventies was an effort made to extend the trade. Thiswas by the Pensacola ice Company and by Warren & Stearns of Pensa-cola, while the Hon. Eugene Blackford was active in introducing thered snapper into the New York trade. The b

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