New England Rarities, Of Fishes (part 8)

Thirdly, Of Fishes.

Pliny and Isadore write there are not above 144 Kinds of Fishes, but to my knowledge there are nearer 300: I suppose America was not known to Pliny and Isadore.

A Catalogue of Fish, that is, of those that are to be seen between the English Coast and America, and those proper to the Countrey.

• Alderling.
• Alize, Alewife, because great bellied; Olafle, Oldwife, Allow.
• Anchova or Sea Minnow.
• Aleport.
• Albicore.
• Barble.
• Barracha.
• Barracoutha, a Fish peculiar to the West-Indies.
• Barsticle.
• Basse.
• Sea Bishop, proper to the Norway Seas.
• River Bleak or Bley, a River Swallow.
• Sea Bleak or Bley, or Sea Camelion.
• Blew Fish or Hound Fish, two kinds, speckled Hound Fish, and blew Hound Fish called Horse Fish.
• Bonito or Dozado, or Spanish Dolphin.
• River Bream.
• Sea Bream.
• Cud Bream.
• Bullhead or Indian Muscle.
• River Bulls.
• Burfish.
• Burret.
• Cackarel or Laxe.
• Calemarie or Sea Clerk.
• Catfish.
• Carp.
• Chare, a Fish proper to the River Wimander in Lancashire.
• Sea Chough.
• Chub or Chevin.
• Cony Fish.
• Clam or Clamp.
• Sea Cob.
• Cockes, or Coccles, or Coquil.
• Cook Fish.
• Rock Cod.
• Sea Cod or Sea Whiting.
• Crab, divers kinds, as the Sea Crab, Boatfish, River Crab, Sea Lion, &c.
• Sea Cucumber.
• Cunger or Sea Eel.
• Cunner or Sea Roach.
• Cur.
• Currier, Post, or Lacquey of the Sea.
• Crampfish or Torpedo.
• Cuttle, or Sleeves, or Sea Angler.
• Clupea, the Tunnies enemy.
• Sea Cornet.
• Cornuta or Horned Fish