Many-toothed blackfish are black on the back and slightly lighter on the belly.
Stranded Specimens Stranded many-toothed blackfish can be distinguished from false killer and pygmy killer whales by the number of teeth alone.
Description Many-toothed blackfish reach lengths of at least 9 feet (2.
Pygmy killer whales can be distinguished from many-toothed blackfish on the basis of the second species' larger number of teeth.
Further, pygmy killer whales have rounded flippers and smoothly tapered heads, while those of the many-toothed blackfish are pointed on the tip and more sharply pointed (often described as a parrot beak).
Many-toothed blackfish have from 21 to 25 teeth per side in both the upper and lower jaws.
May Be Confused With Many-toothed blackfish may be confused with either the false killer whale or the pygmy killer whale.
On the east coast of North America the blackfish is one of the most abundant cetaceans.
Off Cape Cod more than a hundred blackfishhave been seen in one school, and they are eagerly hunted for the sake of the soft oil yielded by their fat.
Defn: A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.
Defn: A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.
The related Alaskan blackfish (Dallia) has been fed frozen to dogs, escaping alive from their stomachs after being thawed out.
In the Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis) the two coracoids are represented by a thin, cartilaginous plate, imperfectly divided, and there are no actinosts.
I sartainly do fancy blackfishwhen they're cooked right.
Those blackfish look so good I long for a fish supper," he said, smiling in open admiration upon her.
Whereupon MacRae abandoned his industry and went off to Blackfish Sound with Vincent in the Bluebird.
The blueback pushed on the Gray Rock to the Ballenas, as if the blackfish and seal and shark that hung always about the schools to prey were herding them to some given point.
Shark and the giant blackfish follow dogfish and seal.
Some steamed north to the troubled waters of Salmon River and Blackfish Sound, some to the Redondas where spring salmon could be taken.
About a week afterward, when I came to this shore, it was strewn, as far as I could see with a glass, with the carcasses of blackfish stripped of their blubber and their heads cut off; the latter lying higher up.
It is stated that in 1812 blackfish were used as food by the poor of Bretagne.
They do not disturb their sands much, though there is a plenty of sea-weed in the creeks, to say nothing of blackfish occasionally rotting the shore.
In the presence of the family of Blackfish and of some of the leading warriors of the tribe, a good deal of hair was pulled from the head of Boone, leaving his scalp-lock not unlike that of the Indians.
Blackfish seems to be very fond of me, and since we came back from Detroit, Owaneeyo has spread many reports of my devotion to the tribe.
Even Blackfish for the time had resigned his position as leader, preferring to have the skilful Frenchman assume the command in the attack on the fort.
They tried their best to overtake you, but when Owaneeyo and some of the other warriors of the tribe came back and said they had not found you, then Blackfish declared that you would come to the fort here to warn the settlers.
Captain Duquesne and Blackfish now ordered an attack upon the fort.
Three blackfish testified to his skill with the rod, at which Wally whistled disgustedly and Norah laughed.
There was a shout as Harry, with a scientific flourish of his rod, hauled a small blackfish from its watery bed.
Scarcely was Norah's line in the water before a big blackfish was on the hook, and after that the fun was fast and furious, until they had caught enough for two or three meals.
A little farther up she came across black Billy--a very cheerful aboriginal, seeing that he had managed to induce no less than nine blackfish to leave their watery bed.
He hauled rapidly and lifted a three-pound blackfish into the boat.
Hauling in blackfish isn't going to find out why the Sea Belle was wrecked.
We thought we might get some blackfish at the end of the reef," Scotty replied.
Blackfish then with brawny arms so mercilessly applied the scourge to the bare head and shoulders of his prisoner, as to cause the blood to flow freely, and to occasion the acutest pain.
Now and then a blackfish was hauled in,--an event greeted with a loud cheer from all parts of the boat.
Outside of the oyster grants, quahaugs are found south of Great Island, north of Billingsgate Island on the west side of the harbor, on Lieutenant's Island bar and at the mouth of Blackfish Creek.
A few clams are scattered over the flats of Blackfish Creek, particularly toward the head of the creek.
Clams can also be obtained in more or less abundance in the thatch which borders the flats of Blackfish Creek, Herring River and Duck Creek.
The relative size of a blackfish and a man is shown at Fig.
The Blubber~, or fat, taken from the jaw of the porpoise or the head of the blackfish was formerly rendered in iron pots over a fire, but the modern method of extracting the oil by steam is said to be much superior.
Porpoise Jaw Oil[13] and Blackfish Melon Oil~ have certain good qualities which have made them very popular, particularly on this side of the Atlantic.
Porpoise jaw oil and blackfish melon oil are worth from $5 to $15 per gallon, according to supply.
In the reeds there are a lot of little dams and canals with green, still water, where duckweed and pondweed run to seed; and where gnat-eggs and blackfish and worms are hatched out in uncountable masses.
Then there would be no more pondweed or duck-food for the grown wild ducks, and no blackfish or worms or gnat-eggs for the ducklings.
The haunts of the blackfish are rocky reefs, those of the bass and bluefish in the vicinity of sandy shoals or tide rips, and those of the remainder in about fifteen fathoms water.
Another trial, and a four-pound blackfish lay extended upon the rock.
At nine o’clock our party were at anchor on a reef about one mile off, and for the space of about two hours we hauled in the blackfish as fast as possible, many of them weighing eight to ten pounds apiece.
While I was at Nantucket, a school of blackfish were good enough to come into the shallows not far from the harbor, and stupid enough to permit themselves to be taken.
Blackfish (tautog) and scup, or scuppaug, are much esteemed.
All this time the blackfish were nearing the shore, uttering sounds closely resembling groanings and lamentations.
One traveler tells of a Provincetown cow-boy who captured and killed a blackfish he descried near the shore.
The Indians followed it in their primitive way, and the exploring parties saw them stripping blubber from a stranded blackfish exactly as now practiced.
We rounded Eel Point with a full sail, and shot past Whale Rock and the shoal of stranded blackfish I told you of.
The oil of the blackfish is obtained in precisely the same manner as that of the whale, of which it is a pocket edition.
The "wheft" was waved thrice as an urgent signal to the ship to come to our assistance with all speed, but in the meantime our interest lay in the surviving blackfish keeping alive.
While he waited motionless, a blackfish pressed his nose to the glass of his face-plate, and scurried off to tell his fellows living in the kelp how strange a thing he had seen that day.
It was decided to try for blackfish off the rocks beyond Sokennet the next morning.
The blackfish is not much of a fighter, but he can sag back and do his obstinate best to remain in the water when the fisher is determined to get him out.
The arrival of the prisoner created great excitement, and the chief Blackfish beat Kenton over the naked shoulders with hickory sticks until the blood flowed, and the poor fellow was almost delirious with agony.
The noted Blackfish was leading the warriors, and unless checked, the indications were that the whites would be cut off to a man.
On the 8th of June I rode off to Blackfish lake swamp, to bring away the things we had left at Hamilton’s.
About ten o’clock we came to Blackfish lake, which we had to cross.
Chief Blackfishwas delighted to find that Boone was so friendly.
There, Chief Blackfish told Boone that he wanted him for a son.
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