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Rudder-fish; Shark Pilot
This fish is found from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod. The adult is not common, but the banded young are not rare north-ward. It attains a length of 2 or 3 feet, but is not highly regarded as a food-fish. It is too rare to be of much interest to the angler.
Colour, bluish above, white below; side with about 6 broad black bars, these forming 3 large blotches on the dorsal and 2 on the anal, these bars growing fainter and disappearing with age; an oblique dark band from the spinous dorsal to the eye, the space above this olivaceous; spinous dorsal black; ventrals mostly black.