FISHES COLLECTED AT SEA ISLE CITY, NEW JERSEY. 
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48. Cynoscion regalis fBloch & Schneider). Weakfish. 
A very abundant food-fish. Many were taken in pound net in Ludlam Bay 
during July and August. The catch was irregular, some days fifty or sixty being 
taken and then for several days succeeding perhaps none. Many were caught by 
fishing parties in the inlets, and during August they were successfully fished for in 
Ludlam Bay. At the same time the young, 2 to 3 inches long, were common. 
49. Tautoga onitis (Linnaeus). Tautog; “Sea-tog.” 
A single sea-tog was taken in a seine upon the beach at Avalon August 4. No 
other noted during the summer. 
50. Gobiosoma bosci (Lac^pfede). 
Many specimens were drawn in a dredge from a shell bottom in Great Channel. 
Depth, 3 to 4 fathoms. Abundant throughout the summer in Ludlam Bay. All speci- 
mens taken were about 1£ inches long. 
51. Batrachus tau (Linnaeus). Toadfisli; “Oyster-fish.” 
A very common fish in Ludlam Bay and frequently taken in pound net. Takes 
the hook freely. It delights to lie in the pools on the mud flats at low water, often 
barely covered by the tide. Its color and general appearance is in such excellent 
mimicry of its surroundings that it is by no means readily detected as it lies midst 
decaying TJlva and other algae. Eggs about hatching were found during the first 
week of July, attached in patches of 50 to 100 to the under side of logs and clumps 
of turf lying near low-water mark. The young, after hatching, remain for some time 
fixed upside down by the yolk sac to the attached base of the egg “ shell.” The male 
guards the eggs and newly-hatched young, savagely resenting any intrusion. These 
fish are extremely tenacious of life, and specimens were kept alive without water for 
sixteen to eighteen hours. 
52. Ophidion marginatum De Kay. 
Two specimens taken at Townsend Inlet; one, about 3 inches long, lying dead on 
sand bar, the other, 8 inches long, buried in sand of beach near low-water mark. 
53. Pleuronectes maculatus Mitchill. 
A specimen, 6 inches long, was taken in pound net. 
54. Paralichthys dentatus (Linnaeus). Common Flounder. 
Common. Frequently taken in pound net and with hook and line. Young, 4 to 
5 inches long, abundant in Ludlam Bay in August. One weighing over 5 pounds 
captured with hook and line in the thoroughfare at Avalon August 6. Valued as a 
“pan” fish. 
55. Acliirus fasciatus Lacdpede. Sole. 
A specimen, about 6 inches long, taken in pound net August 1. This fish swims 
close to the bottom, stirring up the mud and effectually masking its movements. 
56. Balistes carolinensis Gmelin. Trigger-fish. 
One taken on line at Townsend Inlet August 4, 
57. Alutera schcepffi (Walbaum). “Sunfish.” 
One taken in pound net. Two others found on beach. Others seen upon several 
occasions at Townsend Inlet. All adults. A young specimen, 6 inches long, of this 
or an allied species was found on the beach in August. 
58. Orbidus maculatus (Bloch & Schneider). Swellfish. 
One specimen, about 3 inches long, was taken in pound net August 2. 
