TIDAL WATER FISHES 



In some of the bays and estuaries of the New 

 Jersey coast, this pickerel exhibits the same in- 

 clination for a salt-water life. The black basses 

 also find the brackish waters congenial, and this 

 peculiarity is not confined to the large-mouthed 

 bass of Florida, in the waters of which State many 

 of the fishes of the rivers, and numbers of those 

 which habitually live in salt water, interchange 

 temporary habitats. At the mouth of the Susque- 

 hanna River, the small-mouthed black bass is caught 

 in numbers during the fall of the year, as far from 

 the flow of the river as the celebrated ducking 

 grounds near Havre de Grace, where the water is 

 decidedly of a brackish nature. 



A few additional species of the salt water, such 

 as the flounders, eels, sturgeons, sharks, sculpins, 

 and gars, show an inclination to visit the streams 

 above tide-waters, and we have the authority of 

 Mr. J. M. K. Southwick, President of the Rhode 

 Island Fish Commission, for adding to the list, the 

 fishes popularly known as the hickory shad, the 

 menhaden, mackerel, bluefish, scup or porgy, 

 butterfish, weakfish or squeteague, bergall or 

 cunner, tautog or blackfish, codfish, haddock (the 

 three last named are rarely seen), the sheepshead in 

 Warren River, Rhode Island. In reference to 

 these fishes, Mr. Southwick writes to the author: 

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