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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes -- North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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er of the larger Catfishes, areoften caught by jugging, the bait being attached to a jug filled withair, which will in time tire out the fish and bring it to the surface. The Stone Cat, Noturusflavus, reaches a length of about a foot; theother Stone Cats (Noturus) are still smaller, and none of them can beconsidered as food-fishes. THE CATFISH OR BULL-HEAD. The Gaff-topsail Catfish, yEluriclitliys iiiarimis, which ranges from CapeCod to Florida, is found chiefly in brackish water. It is not uncommonlytaken at Arlington, Florida, and Empire Point. It is known here and atPensacola as the Sea Cat, and at Brunswick, Ga,, as Gaff-topsail,in allusion to the shape of the first dorsal fin. According to Mr. H. S.Williams, it is abundant in the Indian River. It is common also alongthe Gulf coast, but is nowhere valued as food. Many of the fishermenbelieve this species to be viviparous. Mr. S. C. Clarke, writing from NewSmyrna, March 31, 1874, remarks: They have eggs in them as large ascherries.
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THE SALT-WATER CATFISH. The Salt-water Catfish, Ariiisfclis, is found along the coas:s of the Gulfof Mexico to as far north as Cape Hatteras. In the first volume of theProceedings of the United States National INIuseum, p. 27S, is an interest-ing account of its breeding habits, as observed by Prof. N. T. Lupton.The species spawns there in July, and the parent (sex not stated) carries-the eggs in its mouth. Silas Stearns says of this fish : The Salt-water Catfish is very abundant everywhere on the Gulf coast.It is found on the sea-beaches, the shores and bottoms of bays and bayous,and even some distance up fresh-water streams. It is a bottom-lovingfish, feeding upon worms and small crustaceans chiefly, but will readilyeat anything else—fish, flesh, or fowl, dead or alive. As the pest of thesewaters, it is ever present and never welcome. It breeds in the summer,in June, July, and August. The spawn is deposited in the depression inthe sand and impregnated with the milt. One of the pare

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