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Dogfish. Monkfish. Stingray. Weakfish. Mahi Mahi. Orange roughy. Opakapaka. Five years ago, few of those salt water creatures would have been likely candidates for the dinner table, either at home or in restaurants. Now Americans are hooked on fish. They are ordering not only such old standards as sole, salmon, striped bass and swordfish but the more exotic species as well. Restaurants and markets across the country tally big increases in sales of shellfish and finfish. The experience of Inland Seafood Corp., a wholesale distributor of fresh and high-quality frozen fish in Atlanta, is typical. "Our sales have increased...
...MISSOURI WEAKFISH: Propels itself in short, jerky movements-in any direction. Swallows twice its capacity to digest. Gregarious, but prefers society of other Missouri weakfish...
Sunfish and horse mackerel, although not mad at anyone, make a harsh sound by grinding their lower pharyngeal teeth together. Conger eels bark, schoolmasters sound as if they were delivering a lecture, and the oldwife gossips away with chirps and chatters. The male weakfish, during the mating season, vibrates his air bladder with such vigor that he can be heard six feet above water while he is sounding off from 50 feet under...
...drums parade, crying "wop, wop, wop." Meagres sometimes sound like a hurdy-gurdy. You can hear a South American catfish "growl" for a hundred feet when he breaks water. Even Homer's fabled song of the sirens is fishy to Interior: it was probably just a shoal of weakfish warbling their weed notes wild...
...TIME [May 29] you have religiously plugged the fishing ports of Montauk Pt., Peconic Bay and Manasquan, while for Maryland you merely show a weakfish. Did you know that one of the best fishing grounds in the East lies off Ocean City, MARYLAND? That there are to be had silver marlin, tuna, blues, and, so several veterans insist, blue marlin? . . . And also, if you think that Cape Hatteras has channel bass, why not try down around Chincoteague? Otherwise, your article was pretty good...