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Title: The fishes of the east Atlantic coast, that are caught with hook and line
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Van Doren, Louis Otis, 1863- Clarke, Samuel C Kenworthy, Charles James
Subjects: Fishes -- Atlantic Coast Fishing -- United States
Publisher: New York, The American angler
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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ish. MuLLLET—3hcgil Uneatus—(Cuv. and Val.)—Silver or white mul-let-J/ brasillensis—(Ag.)—Although the mullet is not a game fish,yet being indispensable to the angler as bait, it should find aplace among the game fishes. All along the Southern coast, in the inlets, bays and rivers, themullet is found in immense numbers, and being mostly in shallowwater, is easily captured with the cast net, an implement so useful tothe coast people that they could scarcely live without it. Its use re-quires some strength of arm and considerable skill and practice ;with it a man can almost always procure a mess of fish—not always,for in a cold norther all fish will betake themselves to deep water,where the cast net is useless. In winter the mullet is small and ill-flavored for human food,though it is always good for fish bait ; but in summer and fall it islarge, fat, and so well flavored as to be the favorite food fish of thenatives. At this season it is salted and packed for winter use for
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FISHES or THE EAST ATLANTIC COAST. 149 the people of the interior, taking salt well, and being as a pickledfish next in value to the mackerel, though at some distance behind.The roe of the mullet being salted, dried and smoked, is a rich andpalatable food. The mullet has a gizzard-like organ for grinding upthe small Crustacea and mollusks which it takes into its stomach withthe mud, which seems to be its principal food. Itself is the foodof all carniverous fishes and birds, as well as of mankind, so thatbut for being a very prolific species, it would be in danger of exter-mination. Size, from half a pound to six pounds. If, as it has been afiirmed, the mullet will sometimes rise to a fly,it might give good sport, being a strong and active fish, capable ofleaping out of the water like a trout. In engaging boatmen and guides for Florida waters, it is impor-tant to select those who can use a cast net. I knew a party ofanglers from Canada who came to camp out in southern Florida onewinter

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