Other Game Fish 2 1 1 



attach themselves to their large hosts and thus obtain free 

 rides to the meals provided by the latter. 



Stories of swordfish banding together with thresher sharks 

 to attack larger animals are to be looked on with suspicion. 

 It is possible that both species have in the course of history 

 attacked the same animal at the same time, but actual co- 

 operation between them is unlikely. 



Swordfish spawn in the vicinity of Sicily and Cuba, and 

 very probably in other locations not yet discovered. The eggs 

 are minute, round and buoyant, and hatch two days after 

 fertilization. The very young fish are wistful-looking little 

 things, with scales and teeth, but no sword. As they grow, 

 scales and teeth disappear, and the upper jaw develops the 

 sword. 



The spear-fish or marlin, so-called because its sword is 

 round like a spear or marlinspike, belongs to a different genus 

 from the broadbill. It has ventral fins, which the broadbill 

 lacks, and it has teeth and scales in the adult form. The 

 sailfish is a close relative of the marlin, and gets its name from 

 its long, high, sail-like dorsal fin. 



STRIPED BASS 



The striped bass is native to our Atlantic coast from 

 the Saint Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico. He lives, 

 according to books, in tidal estuaries, but he is frequently 

 caught in the ocean surf, and he goes up rivers into fresh 

 water to spawn. He is a natural wanderer, but his longest 

 voyage was anything but natural. This occurred back in 

 1879, when 135 young striped bass journeyed by train from 

 the Navesink River in New Jersey to San Francisco Bay. 

 Three years later, 300 more followed in the footsteps of the 

 pioneers. From these small beginnings the species has spread 

 up and down the coast for five hundred miles, and is now 

 abundant in the Sacramento River, where it is held in high 



