BULL’S EYES. 49 
Mr. R. E. Eastway, President of the Amateur Fishermen’s 
Association of New South Wales, states that the best line for 
the capture of this fish would be a No. 30 thread line. If 
from a moored boat a length of 100 yards would do, but if 
used from a steamer drifting, 150 would be required. Two 
3/0 hooks on twisted gut, and the sinker, for moored boat, 
4 0z., and drifting steamer, I lb. 
As an edible fish it is usually considered a delicacy, and 
it always brings a high price in the markets. 
In color, the Nannygai is of a most brilliant uniform 
golden-red, “ shot’ with violet, and this taken together with 
its large and handsome saucer-eyes and deeply-forked tail, 
render it a, most conspicuous object. 
BULL’S-EYES. 
Bull’s-eyes (Pempheris). 
Prate XVIII. 
Two species of the curious large-eyed fishes known as 
Bull’s-eyes are to be found occasionally in our markets, but 
neither is at present of economic importance. ‘hey are the 
SMALL-SCALED BULL’S-EYE (Pempheris compressus) and the 
LARGE-SCALED BULL’S-EYE (Pempheris macrole pts). 
Both species attain a length of 8 or g inches. 
THE BLACKFISH FAMILY. 
Blackfish (Girella tricuspidata). 
Prate XIX. 
Undoubtedly one of the best known fishes of New South 
Wales is the common Blackfish. Though its flesh is not of 
the delicate flavor possessed by many of our fishes, it is one 
of our most important food-fishes; as it is one of the “ stock” 
fishes of the markets, being always present in greater or lesser 
numbers. It is an estuary fish, and is to be found in all our 
coastal lakes and estuaries in great numbers at all seasons of 
the year. 
