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BULLETIN 1 OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
13. Exoccetus sp. Flying fish. 
Flying-fish, probably E. heterurus , are occasionally taken in the pound nets, 
mostly in July. The fish weigh from one-fourth to one-half a pound and have no 
economic value. 
14. Scomberomoius regalis (Bloch). Cero; Sier; Sieving; Searer. 
Not common ; irregular in appearance, and apparently little more than a strag- 
gler in the pound nets. About twelve or fifteen fish are usually taken annually in each 
pound net. They range in weight from a few pounds to upward of 40 pounds, the 
average being probably 10 pounds. On August 22, 1892, an example weighing 36 
pounds was taken at Long Branch, and the same day another weighing 25£ pounds 
was caught at Bradley Beach. The fish arrives in June, and remains on the coast 
into October. It is usually most common in August, as is shown by the following 
record of the number of fish taken in two pound nets in 1892: 
Months. 
Number 
of fish 
caught. 
June 
] 
July 
August 
"e> 
1 
September 
October 
Total 
27 
The average price received in' 1892 was 50 cents for each fish, or 5 cents a 
pound. At times, however, and in some places where the fish are sold locally, as at 
Long Branch, from 12 to 15 cents a pound is the price received. 
15. Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill). Spanish Mackerel; Spaniard. 
Next to the weakfish this is the most important fish taken in the pound nets set 
on the ocean shore of the State. The fish does not occur regularly, but goes in -scat- 
tered bodies. Sometimes several weeks may elapse before a given net will catch 
any; then schools may strike on and fish be taken at each lift for quite a while. One 
particular net set off Monmouth County in 1887 secured 2,500 pounds of Spanish mack- 
erel on the first and second days of August, but none was taken at any other time 
during that season. 
The fish, taken in this State have an average weight of nearly 3 pounds. The 
monthly variations in the catch in 1891 and 1892 are shown in the following summary: 
Months. 
1891 
(1 net). 
1892 | 
(2 nets), j 
July 
Pounds. 
336 
Pounds. 
5 
1, 803 
1,598 
3, 280 
September - . 
4, 030 
October 
51 
Total 
3, 788 
7, 315 
In 1887 7 pound nets on this coast took 17,500 pounds of Spanish mackerel, an 
average of 2,500 pounds to each net. The following year the same nets took about 
35,000 pounds, an average of 5,000 pounds each. In 1891 12 nets secured 33,781 
pounds, giving an average of 2,815 pounds to a net. The 23 nets employed in 1892 
obtained 71,663 pounds, the average catch to a net being 3,115 pounds. 
