Amber-fish; Coronado 



ward. It attains a length of 2 or 3 feet, but is not highly 

 regarded as a food-fish. It is too rare to be of much interest 

 to the angler. 



Colour, bluish above, white below; side with about 6 broad 

 black bars, these forming 3 large blotches on the dorsal and 2 

 on the anal, these bars growing fainter and disappearing with 

 age; an oblique dark band from the spinous dorsal to the eye, 

 the space above this olivaceous; spinous dorsal black; ventrals 

 mostly black. 



Amber-fish ; Coronado 



Seriola lalandi Cuvier & Valenciennes 



The amber-fish is an immense fish, reaching a length of 5 

 or 6 feet and a weight of more than 100 pounds, occurring from 

 west Florida to Brazil, and occasionally north to New Jersey. 



In the Gulf it is rather common and is valued as food. 



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Colour, dorsal fin dusky, with a light-yellow submarginal 

 band; pectoral fin dusky-yellowish; ventrals vellow and blackish; 

 anal blackish, with pale edge. 



Amber-jack 



Seriola dnmerili (Risso) 



This species, also called amber-fish and coronado, is of wide 

 distribution. It occurs both in the Mediterranean and the West 

 Indies. It is rather common about Pensacola and Key West, 

 and is a food-fish of some importance. 



Colour, grayish silvery below; a gilt band through eye to 

 caudal, and another through temporal region to front of soft 

 dorsal; fins plain; no dark cross-bands. Very close to S. lalandi, 

 but smaller, the body deeper and less compressed; mouth larger 

 than in S. dorsalis, but about as in S. lalandi. 



S. ma^atlana, fasciata, rivoliana and falcata are unimportant 

 species. 



The genus Elagatis is close to Seriola and contains a single 

 species, E. bipinnulatus, a large pelagic fish, reaching a length 

 of 2\ feet. It occurs in most tropical seas and is occasionally 

 seen in the West Indies from which it sometimes strays north 



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