Texas Game and Fish, Volume 9, Number 4, March 1951 Page: 3
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The Bay Menhaden, Brevoortia gunteri (Hildebrand). From a 270 mm.
specimen taken in Aransas Bay, Rockport, Texas. A scale and ventral
figure are shown below.Certainly such small catches of these
fish are insignificant.
Moreover, actual attempts to utilize
the purse seines along the Gulf coast
as a means to catch game and food
fish, especially Spanish makerel, have
resulted in failure. This was tried un-
successfully at Galveston, a short time
before the war, and a similar attempt
was made at Grand Isle, Louisiana, in
1945. The Grand Isle attempt re-
sulted in over $6000 loss to the opera-
tor (Gowanloch, 1949).
In the shallow water of the bays,
which are the nursery grounds of most
of our game and food fish, purse seines
cannot be operated. In deeper water,
where a set can be made, it has been
observed that game fish enclosed in
the net sound and escape below the
lead line before the seine can bepursed.
Since the "History of the American
Menhaden," by G. Brown Goode,
published in 1879, and republished
in 1880, there has been little compre-
hensive material published on the
menhaden. Goode's work was an en-
largement of manuscript notes left by
Professor Baird, based upon opinions
and information elicited by means of
circulars to fishermen, manufacturers,
customs officers, light keepers, etc.,
supplemented to some extent by ob-
servations of U. S. Fisheries agents,
but not upon a scientific study.
Goode himself admitted that it was
found necessary to make allowances
for many inaccuracies of statement
on the part of his correspondents, and
that some of them, having been un-
able to obtain exact information, hadventured to guess at what they did
not really know from experience or
research.
It is these theories of Goode and
his correspondents that have in many
instances been repeated by the unin-
formed and that have taken the place
of actual knowledge until this day.
This is particularly true with regard
to the use and importance of men-
haden as a food by other fish.
The list of fish enumerated by
Goode (who has been quoted by Jor-
dan and Evermann and the Encyclo-
pedia Brittanica) as destructive ene-
mies of menhaden does not comprise
all the species that at times eat men-
haden, and it includes some not known
to feed upon them at all. The as-
sumption that they do is made partly
from the fact that they are built on.FFECT OUR FOOD AND GAME FISH?
MARCH, 1951 3
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