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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes — North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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ght to add that I tasted the dish again whencold next morning at breakfast, and that it had lost nothing of its relish,and I do not think that many who sat down before it without prejudicewould come to any other than such a favorable conclusion. Perhaps\inegar instead of lemon might cheapen the dish, but as the recipe isgiven, it may be classed as economical. The common Brook Sucker, Catostonius Coiiuiicrsoiii. or the • AVhiteSucker, is the most familiar and generally abundant of the group. It CARP, DACE AND MINNOW. 435 inhabits all bodies of water, large and small, from New England to Colo-rado. In the great lakes it reaches a length of two feet or more. In smallbrooks it is mature at eight or ten inches. It varies much in size, colorand form in the different streams. It bites freely, ami is one of the fisheswith which the unambitious brook angler is well contented. When takenout of clear water, ])roperly cared for and well washed, it is an excellentpan-fish, like most of its kind.
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THE BROOK SUCKER—CATOSTOMlS COMMERSOXI. All the lakes and rivers of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope,says Jordan, are inhabited by species of this genus, or of the alliedgenera Chasmistes and Pantostcus. In Utah Lake, said to be the greatestSucker-pond in the world, are found Caiostoimis fcciiinitis and ardcns,Chasmistes liorus and PantostcusplatyrliyncJius, all in abundance. In LakeTahoe Catostoinus tahoensis; in the Sacramento C. occidcntalis; in theColumbia C. macrochilus; in Klamath Lake Chasmistes luxatus and CJi.hrevirostiis, abound, while in the great lakes and all waters thence toAlaska and Arctic Ocean C. loiigirostris is an important food-fish. The Stone-roller, Hog Sucker, Stone Toter or Hammer-head Sucker, Catostomus nigricans, abounds in most waters from the greatlakes southward. The Stone-roller is extremely abundant in every run-ning stream in the North and West, where its singular, almost comical formis familiar to every school-boy. It delights in rapids and
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