HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 63 



After being carefollj inspected, a readj market is found for these fish, as is shown by 

 the following notice, copied from Mr. Coshing's *' Statement," above referred to : — 

 " A small portion of the mackerel, consisting chiefly of the poorest quality. No. 3, is 

 exported to foreign countries. It is not easy to ascertain the precise quantity exported, 

 as the Annual Statement printed by order of Congress embraces all kinds of pickled fish 

 under one head ; probably the amount does not exceed 40,000 barrels. They are sent to 

 the West Indies, to South America, to some ports of the Mediterranean, and to the East 

 Indies. But the principal market for this fish is in the United States. Philadelphia, New 

 York, Baltimore, and New Orleans have taken the largest quantities hitherto ; but more 

 or less is shipped to most of the chief ports along the seaboard from New York to New 

 Orleans. Thus far Philadelphia, by its rapid and steady increase of demand, has held 

 the lead of other ports. From 1820 to 1825 that city required from 30,000 to 40,000 

 barrels, as its yearly supply for its own consumption, its interior trade, and its foreign or 

 domestic export. It now receives three times that quantity, and about one third part of 

 the whole product of the fishery. In the Southern States, also, the demand increases 

 with the increased facilities of interior transportation, and must continue to be enlarged, 

 as the interior of the country goes on acquiring access to markets and added population 

 and prosperity. It is understood, also, that this fish, owing to its good qualities as an 

 article of food, and its convenient form for subdivision and distribution among the slaves, 

 is gaining favor in the estimation of the planters of the South. As evidence of which 

 fact, it may be stated, by way of example, that, with a colored population of 210,000 per- 

 sons, the State of Georgia consumed, the last year (1835), 37,000 barrels, of all quali- 

 ties, valued there at ^286,750. Doubtless the consumption is proportionably great in 

 all the other planting States.'^ 



Labrador, H. R. Storer. The whole of the Atlantic Coast, Richaebson, Maine^ 

 Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linslev, Ayres. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



GENUS 11. PELAMYS, Coy. 

 The teeth strong, separate, and pointed. 



Pelamys Sard a, Cuvier. 

 The Striped Bonito. 



{Plate XI Fig. 5.) 



Scomber sarda^ Bloch, Systema, p. 22, pL 334. 



*' « Bomti(L, MiTCHXLL, Trans. Lit and Phil Soc. of N. Y., r. p. 42S. 

 La Pilamide commme, ou Bonite h dos rayi {Pdamyst sardu^ Gov., Bcomher sarda^ Bi- ), Cur. et Vai. , Tin. p. 149, pi. 217. 



