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and barbless hooks baited with small fish. There is little sport in this 
sort of fishing and much hard work, for the albacore, if biting at all 
bite at onee, and are lifted straight out of the water by main strength, 
shaken from the hook onto the deck and the hook at once baited again. 
Thus each fisherman may land a fish every minute or so. It is. related 
that three men once averaged a ten each in a half hour. But the 
albacore is very erratic in taking tke hook, or in appearing at all, or 
when biting well may suddenly stop, so that the catch is uncertain. 
In an old book on English fisheries (W. Yarrell) I note that on the 
coast of France this fish is caught abundantly at a depth of 80 fathoms; 
that it rises to the surface to pursue flying fishes, but that fishermen 
take few except at great depths. This is interesting in light of the fact. 
that ours are practically all taken at the surface. Experimental fishing 
may show that ours may also be taken at a depth, perhaps at times when 
they can not be taken otherwise. 
The Oceanic Bonito (Euthynnus pelamis). 
This species may be recognized by four or five dark stripes on the 
lower part of the side that are parallel with the lower outline of the 
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body. The back is bluish and the belly silvery, while the stripes are 
brownish or coppery color. The general shape of the body is similar 
to that of the albacore and tuna. 
This fish is sometimes called skipjack by anglers, but Sarda chilensis 
has a better right to that name. Probably this confusion has arisen 
because beth of these fishes have stripes, but the stripes on the skipjack 
are on the back and are not parallel with the outline of the body, while 
on this fish they are on the lower. part of the body and are parallel 
with the outline. 
The oceanic bonito is found in the warmer parts of the Atlantic and 
Pacific oceans. It is reported to be frequently taken about the Santa 
Barbara Islands. 
THE YELLOWTAIL AND HORSE MACKEREL. 
(Family Carangida. ) 
This is a large family especially well represented in tropical waters. 
Two only are found commonly within our lmits. Among them are 
the paimpanos (not the California pampano, which is a butter-fish) the 
cravelles, the pilot fishes, the horse mackerels, the vellowtails, and many 
