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SECTION FIFTII. 
THE KINGFISH, 
By many anglers this fish is regarded as the best water- 
game of the estuaries. It is justly entitled to be considered 
one of the best food and anglers’ fishes of the waves which 
wash the shores from Sandy Hook to New York City. Its 
small and hard mouth is bordered with a eristly rim, peculi- 
arly adapted to holding a small hook. In the waters about 
the city this fish is not numerous, nor are the members of the 
limited shoals of large size, running only from a half to two 
pounds each off Communipaw, Wall Von Kull, and Newark 
Bay; but at the south end of Staten Island, in Amboy Bay, 
and where it merges into the lower Bay of New York, near 
Freeport, and in Jamaica Bay, near Barren Island, they some: 
times run as heavy as five pounds. All along the South Bay 
and the New Jersey shore and inlets this delectable fish is 
taken in greater or less numbers in fykes, seines, pounds, and 
with the hand-line, while they yield tithe to sportsmen with 
rod and reel. 
Tur Kryarisyu.—Sceena Nebulosa,—Mitchill. 
The meat of the kingtish laminates in flakes of very close 
texture. It is a very heavy fish for its size. Though emir 
nently a breakfast fish, yet for a chowder the epicure prefers 
it to sea bass or cod, the acknowledged chowder fishes. The 
