Hold the same fish aloft at dawn, and it might be purple. The common name couldn’t be any more obvious or direct - unless, of course, you caught a big blue one sunny afternoon, held it aloft to admire, and realized that under certain sunlight conditions it is really a green fish.
photo.Ĭonsider the bluefish, named Pomatomus saltatrix in 1766. Whether you call it a chopper, ‘gator or gorilla-gator, big bluefish are tough battlers that generate a lot of smiles. But most fishermen ignore the Latin and use common names, which, among other things, makes for better fish stories. This was supposed to eliminate confusion. Many fish have several names, so it’s a very good thing that scientists give every fish a Latin name. Thus, my bulldog blackfish might be a white chin to you. The person who came up with the original moniker likely focused on the fish’s most notable characteristic, but then not everyone sees things the same way. When it comes to piscatorial personification, recognition and classification, I think there may be more to names than Shakespeare opined.Īlthough fish names tend to be fairly descriptive, they can also be misleading. Shakespeare may have been right about naming flowers, but fish? Would a bunker by any other name smell the same? Well now, there’s a question to ponder. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet.” Mate Bob Hindenlang lifts this nice one aboard the charter boat No Time, Oceanside, NY. Depending on where you fish, striped bass may be known as stripers, rockfish, squidhounds or greenheads.
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