THE BLUEFISH. 
And, as he darts, the waters blue 
Are streaked with gleams of many a hue 
Green, orange, purple and gold. Matthew G. Lewis. 
Call them Sir, by whatever name we please ; whether blue-fish, of Massachusetts Bay ; snapper, of New 
Bedford ; horse-mackerel, on the shores of Rhode Island; or tailor, in Delaware Bay, they are the same 
Temnodon saltator still, and deal out destruction and death to other species in all the localities they visit. 
Speech of Hon. N. E. Atwood, of the Cape District, 1870. 
9 I" 1 HIS fish, which on the coast of New England and the Middle States 
is called the Bluefish, is also known in Rhode Island as the “ Horse 
Mackerel ”; south of Cape Hatteras as the “ Skipjack ;” in North Carolina, 
Virginia, and Maryland it is sometimes known as the ‘ ‘ Green-fish. ’ ’ Young 
Bluefish are in some parts of New England called “ Snapping Mackerel ” 
or “Snappers;” about New Bedford “Blue Snappers;” to distinguish 
them from the Sea Bass they are sometimes spoken of as the “ Bluefish.” 
About New York they are called “Skip Mackerel,” and higher up the 
Hudson River “White-fish.” In the Gulf of Mexico the name “Blue¬ 
fish ” is in general use. 
Pomatomus saltatrix is widely distributed—in the Malay Archipelago, 
Australia, at the Cape of Good Hope, at Natal and about Madagascar; 
in the Mediterranean, where it is a well-known and highly-prized food- 
fish in the markets of Algiers,, though rare on the Italian side. It 
has been seen at Malta, at Alexandria, along the coast of Syria, and about 
the Canaries. It has never been seen on the Atlantic coast of Europe, 
and, strangely enough, never in the waters of the Bermudas or any of the 
Western Islands. On our coast it ranges from Central Brazil and the 
