REVIEW OF LOCAL FISHES 



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a length of eight inches and is usually reddish brown or yellowish in 

 color. Another fish related to the sculpins is the Rosefish, a deep water 

 species common northward and only of accidental occurrence in our 

 region. It has a somewhat spiny head, a long spiny back fin of fifteen 

 spines joined to a shorter one with soft rays. The tail fin is small and 

 concave behind, the body covered with small scales, the lower jaw 

 projecting decidedly beyond the upper, and the eye large, the color nearly 

 uniform orange red, sometimes with vague dusky bars. 



The Sea Poacher is another deep water fish which is allied to the 

 eculpins, occurring accidentally in this region. It has a very slender 

 elongate body terminated by a fan-shaped tail fin, a short head with a 

 large eye, the small dorsal and anal fins similar and opposite to one 

 another near the center of the fish's length, and the body covered with 

 keeled bony plates. 



The Lumpfish is a shore species which is rather uncommon. It has 

 an unshapely somewhat globose form without scales but with the body 

 sprinkled over with small tubercles and large tubercles forming length- 

 wise series or ridges. The fins are short and soft rayed. The fish is 

 somewhat translucent and varies hi color, from yellowish and brownish 

 to greenish. 



The Sea Robins are sculpin-like fishes with large pectoral fins which 

 they spread horizontally in swimming. They have somewhat pointed 

 bird-shaped heads which are completely encased in a covering of bone. 

 Before each pectoral fin are three separate fleshy rays which the fish 

 uses as tactile organs. Two species of Sea Robins are common in summer. 

 The Carolina Sea Robin has a more or less distinct groove across the top 



CAROLINA SEA ROBIN 



