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| What fish is marked with black and white stripes? |
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| What member of the porgy family is one of the national emblems of Japan? |
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| Are the porgy and the pogy the same fish? |
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| What size does a large sheepshead attain? |
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| Q&A 1. | What fish is marked with black and white stripes? Mayport, Florida |
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| There are several fish which are marked in this way. The best known of these us the sheepshead, Archosergus procatocepholus, a fair-sized food fish which is whitish in color and marked with 7 broad bands of black. Sometimes mistaken for a young sheepshead is the sergeant major, Abadofduf saxabilis, which has 5 vertical black bands. The spadefish, Chaetodipierus faher, is quite flattened in shape and has several black bands of unequal width. The banded butterflyfish, Chaetodon capistriatus, is also flattened, and has a pointed snout. The body of this fish is crossed by four bands of black, the first of which passes through the eye. In addition to the above-named species, there are a number of less-common forms which are banded with dark colors. |
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| Q&A 2. | What member of the porgy family is one of the national emblems of Japan? |
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| The red tai, Pagrus major, along with the rising sun and the chrysanthemum, is frequently figured in Japanese prints. This abundant and highly-edible porgy is crimson in color, as its name indicates. In all prints and images the Japanese fish-god Ebisu appears with a red tai under his arm. A smaller tai, P. cardinalis, also red in color, is likewise found in Japanese waters, as are two species of black tai, Sparus latus and S. berda, which also belong to the porgy family. |
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| Q&A 3. | Are the porgy and the pogy the same fish? Pensacola, Florida |
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| The name porgy is used for any of the porgy family (Sparidae), a spiny-finned group of marine fishes with strong teeth. The commonest of the group is the northern porgy (Stenotomus chrysops), or scup, which is known along the Atlantic coast from South Carolina northward to Maine. While the porgy refers to the menhaden or mossbunker, (Brevoortia tryrannus). This member of the herring family (Clupeidae) is a soft-spined fish with no teeth. The porgy has some food value while the menhaden is rarely eaten. The latter is of great economic value, however. It is rich in oil, and about a billion and a third pounds are caught in the United States each year for the manufacture of fish meal and oil. The meal is used to fortify poultry and hog feeds, and the oil has many industrial uses. The menhaden occurs from Nova Scotia to northern Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| Q&A 4. | What size does a large sheepshead attain? Omaha, Nebraska |
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| A length of 30 inches and a weight of 20 pounds would be considered large for the sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus. |
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