THE GAME PISHES OP THE WOELD 



iish closely resembling the Ulua, which refers to Carangus 

 marginiatus or C. fosterix. 



N^ative names for others of the tribe are Maka, Amuka, 

 "Dlua Paud, OmUu; all very beautiful fishes. The young of 

 many are barred, the adults having splendid tiats of gold, yeUow 

 a,nd silver. The dolphin, taken at Santa CataUna, is common 

 liere ; also a small dolphin (Coryphaena equisetus). The sea 

 basses (/8erra«.i(?ae) are well represented, and the large groupers so 

 •common in Plorida, Jamaica, Barbados and Bermuda, are here 

 known as Hapu pii u, and a common catch. 



A stroll through the market at Hawaii will afford the sea-angler 

 an astonishing suggestion of the iafinite range of the tropical 

 fishes, and their beauty of colouring. One of the comely game fishes 

 ■of the region and a good food fish, up to two feet, is the Opakapaka 

 (ApMlus), a most attractive fish peculiar to the Islands and bear- 

 ing some resemblance to the gray snapper or black bass. 



A fine big game fish, sure of a warm place in the heart of the 

 sea-angler, is the Uku {Aprion viresceus), its large powerful tail 

 teUiag the story of a hard fighter. It should be remembered 

 that scarcely any of these fishes have been experimented with by 

 the angler with the rod, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Aflalo can 

 some time visit these radiant islands with the light tackle he has 

 carried all over the globe, and give to the anglers of the world, 

 a,nd the British Sea Anglers Society, a report of the invasion of 

 this island paradise with the rod and reel. 



Volumes could be filled with the descriptions of the resplendent 

 beauty of these fishes alone, and if the reader desires information 

 xegardiag them, he should obtain from the British Museum 

 liibrary, or that of N^ew York, Boston, orj elsewhere, the now 

 rare and out-of-print report entitled The Aquatic Resources 

 of the Hawaiian Islands, by Jordan and Evermann, 1905, printed 

 by the government, as here are scores of illustrations in the 

 natural colours of the fishes, showing so bewildering an array 

 of tints, shades and hues that one might well believe that some 

 artist of weird and impossible fancy had attempted to see what 

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