26 THE GAME FISH OF XOETH AMEEICA. 



Of those salt-water fish of the Atlantic coasts which afford 

 the most real sport to the angler^ and which are alone taken 

 with the rod and reel^ all the families belong to the class of the 

 Acanthopteryyii, or spiny-finned fishes, none of the soft-finned 

 fishes of the abdominal division being taken in the shoal waters 

 of the bays and estuaries ; while the deep-sea fish are all of the 

 Sub-brachial Malacopterygii, unless we may consider as such the 

 Sea Bass and Porgee, which are, however, as often or oftener 

 caught in shallow water. 



Of salt-water fish, taken in shoal water, river mouths, and the 

 like, Acanthopteryyii, spiny-finned, we have the family 



Percidje, whereof the Perch is the type. 

 Genus Lahrax. 



The Striped Bass [Lahrax Lineatv^). 



[Mentioned above as a fresh-water fish, being frequently 

 caught in rivers far above tide-water, as well as in the estuaries, 

 and even in the sui'fs on the ocean borders. 



Genus Centropristes. 



The Sea Bass {Centropristes Nigricans). 

 Scienidse. 



Genus Leiostomus. 



The Sea Chub. — Lafayette-fish [Leiostomus Obliquus). 



Genus Otolithus. 



The Weak Fish [Otolithus Regalis). 



The Southern Trout [Otolithus CaroUnensis). 



Genus Umbrina. 



The King Fish [Umbrina Nebulosa). 



