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Hawaiian Fishes 



Aholehole or Mountain Bass 



Also known as the Ahole 



86-2 Dules marginatus Cuvier 



The aholehole is a bright silvery bluish color on the body and reaches 

 a length of ten inches. It is an attractive little fish and lives in great 

 numbers in the brackish water and streams of its range. These fishes 

 spawn along the shorelines and the young after hatching spend about 

 three years living among the coral pools. Here they are safe from their 

 enemies and are able to make a rapid growth because of the large 

 quantities of food in these areas. They obtain their characteristic color at 

 the end of the second year and soon thereafter leave the coral pools to 

 begin life along the open coastline. 



The aholehole bites a hook readily and is a good little game fish. 

 Although small, it is a good food fish. This fish is distributed from the 

 East Indies and Micronesia eastward through the islands of Polynesia and 

 northward to the Hawaiian Islands. 



Bonin Island Sea Bass 

 86-3 Dules boninensis (Fowler) 



From Fowler 



This little sea bass measured about nine inches in length and was 

 taken a few hundred miles northwest of the Hawaiian Islands. 



