Miscellaneous Perciform Fish

This section of the catalogue looks like a real miscellany, and is, although we are still progressing through the Order Perciformes, to which all these species belong.

Only some of these species are of current importance as food, but several of them could and may be exploited more fully in the future. This is also true of a species which I have not catalogued Centrolophus niger (Gmelin), the black-fish (or black ruff, as it is known in America). It is a deep-water fish, of which not much is known. It is dull black in colour, may measure as much as 85 cm and has rather flabby flesh which is used in some places for making fish balls.