CHAPTER IV 



THE BASS, BREAMS, ANT) RED MULLET 



In this chapter we must consider a number of more or less 

 perch-like forms, including some very common, and one very 

 valuable, food-fish. These are as follows : — 



Percidae 



The Bass (^Labrax lupus ; Morone ; Boccus) 



The Bass, one of our handsomest sea fish, is separated on 

 anatomical grounds from the true perches in Mr. Boulenger's 

 new Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum, but it was 

 long regarded as a sea perch, and has, indeed, considerable 

 affinities with that family. In colour the adult fish is either 

 green or greenish brown, with silvery scales ; the younger fish 



