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quantity taken and sold in each of 4 widely separated years beginning in 1880 

 was as follows: 



Year. 



1880 

 li!90 

 1897 

 1902 



Pounds. 



1,120,000 

 1.885,680 

 3,090,255 

 3,781,455 



Value. 



$25,550 

 48,856 

 95,219 



156,247 



(Cynoscion, dog drum.) 



268. CYNOSCION NOTHUS (Holbrook). 



Silver Squeteague; Bastard Trout (S. C). 



Otolithus nothus Holbrook, Ichthyology of South Carolina, 134, pi. 19, fig. 1, 1860; South Carolina. 

 Cynoscion nothus, Jordan & Evermann, 1898, 1406, pi. ccxx, fig. 561. 



Diagnosis. — Body rather deep and more^ compressed^than in other species; head con- 

 tained 3.5 times in total length; mouth rather small, maxillary extending to posterior margin 

 of pupil; snout short, contained 4.5 times in length of head; eye large, .25 length of head; gill- 

 rakers about 13, 9 being on lower arm of arch, the longest .5 diameter of eye; scales in lateral 

 series 58 to 62, in transverse series 13; lateral line curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly to 

 7th dorsal spine; dorsal rays x+i,27 (to 29), the soft dorsal scaled throughout; anal rays n,9 

 or 11,10; caudal fin well rounded. Color: silvery gray above, very finely spotted on back 

 and on sides to level of pectorals, silvery below; snout and tip of lower jaw blackish; inside of 

 mouth white; upper fins dusky, lower fins white, {nothus, bastard.) 



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Fig. 137. Silver Squeteague. Cynoscion nothus. 



Tliis is the least abundant and least known of the squeteagues of the east 

 coast of the United States. It has been found in Chesapeake Bay, South 

 Carolina, and Florida, but has not heretofore been recorded from North Carolina. 

 On September 1,. 1899, a small specimen, now in the Beaufort laboratory, was 

 taken in a beam trawl, in 9 fathoms of water, 2 miles southeast of Beaufort 

 Inlet. 



