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Season in R. I.: Rare. Taken in traps occasionally during summer 



months. 

 Size: Five or six feet long and up to 100 pounds weight. 



96. Decapterus punctatus (Agassiz). Scad; Round Robin; Cigar-fish. 

 Geog. Dist.: Cape Cod to Brazil. Taken at Woods Hole (Baird, 1873, 



Bean, 1880, Smith, 1898), at East Haven in Connecticut (1884); occa- 

 sionally taken from August to October on Long Island (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: Taken in Narragansett Bay (R. I. Fish Com., 1899). 

 Three specimens, the largest measuring 4\ inches, taken from the 

 stomach of a horse mackerel (Pelamys?) at Newport, by Mr. Samuel 

 Powell. (Fowler, Proc. Acad. Sci. Phil., LVI, 1904, 760). 



Rate of Growth: Only young and half-grown specimens are taken on 

 Long Island and around Cape Cod (Bean, 1903). Adults reach a 

 length of about one foot. 



97. Decapterus macarellus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Mackerel Scad. 

 Geog. Dist.: Warm parts of Atlantic north to Nova Scotia. Cornish 



reports specimens at Canso (1907). Common every year in October at 

 Woods Hole (Baird, 1873 Smith, 1898) and at Vineyard Sound (Smith, 

 1898). Taken in abundance at Southampton, Long Island, August 31, 

 1897 (Bean, 1903). Abundant along south Florida coast. 



Habitat: Shallow waters and harbors, moving in small schools. 



Season in R. I.: Occasional in October. Prof. Jenks is authority for the 

 statement that none over six inches long are ever taken in our waters. 

 Specimen in the U. S. National Museum, taken at Newport by Mr. 

 Samuel Powell (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 42). 



Food: Copepods and annelids. 



Rate of Growth: Specimens over six inches long not reported in northern 

 waters. Adults reach a longth of one foot. 



98. Trachums trachurus (Linnseus). Saurel; Gascon. 



Geog. Dist.: North Atlantic, chiefly on coast of Europe, south to Spain 

 and Naples. Taken also at Newport; Pensacola; Cape San Lucas, and 

 Long Island. Only four American specimens are known, but it occurs 

 in enormous schools on the European coasts. The Long Island specimen 

 was taken October 16, 1898, in Clam Pond Cove, in company with young 

 bluefish and menhaden (Bean, 1901). 



Habitat: Surface waters, with habits like mackerel. 



Season in R. I:. Goode describes specimen from Newport. (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 1882, 269). 



