GO GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 



It would appear that these two species, from their 

 strong resemblance to each other, are often confounded, 

 and I think it very probable that specimens of the pom- 

 pano reported to have been taken this year in Buzzard s 

 Bay were in reality cavalli, this being a more roving as 

 well as a more numerous species than the pompano. 



BLACKFISH, OK SEA BASS (Centropistes niyr leans). 

 CUVIER. This seems to be the same species which is 

 known in New York as the sea bass, and at Newport as the 

 blackfish. Like the sheepshcad, those in northern waters 

 are much larger than we find them in Florida waters, so 

 that I am inclined to believe that they breed here and 

 go North in the summer. At Mosquito Inlet, they are 

 very abundant, and being voracious feeders can be taken 

 almost at will, and with any bait. Usually under a 

 pound, while olf the reefs at Newport I had taken them 

 of six or seven. 



SAILOR S CHOICE, on HOGFISII (Ilemulon falcoma- 

 culatus). DEKAY ; CHOKER (Micropoyon undulatus). 

 CUVIER ; BLACK GRUXT (Hcmulon arcuatum). HOL- 

 BROOK ; SKIP JACK, YOUXG OF BLUEFISII (Temnodon 

 saltator). Lixx. The above are small pan fish, which 

 can be taken in vast numbers in the bays and creeks, 

 but the larger species being numerous few persons 

 seek for these, though they are all nice eating. The 

 fullgrown bluefisli arc numerous on some parts of 

 the coast at certain seasons, as I am informed, as 

 arc also the Spanish mackerel, but I have never met 

 with them. 



MULLET (Mayil Hneahix). DEKAY. I think there 

 arc several species of the mullet here. They are found 

 everywhere in the bays and sounds in immense shoals, 

 und are taken in seines and cast nets in size from half a 



