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PACIFIC KING PARROT FISH Writing of the king parrot fish, and to show how little is known of this species, David G. Stead, the Australian authority, has written in his Edible Fishes of New South Wales: "Little is known in regard to this rockfish. which attains a good marketable sizt nearly eighteen inches." Then in a footnote it says: "There is a fine specimen of this handsome fish measuring seventeen mid one-quarter inches in tlie collection of the New South Wales department of fisheries. It ws captured off Fairy Bower, Manly, not far from Sydney Heads." Fishing in New South Wales I have caught a good number of parrot fish, but not one more than about two pounds. In Port Hedland I have landed three king parrot fisli weighing respectively seven pounds, eleven ouuds and seventeen pounds the latter was well over two foot long, aud our greatest local authority Bob Mackenzie informs me that he has caught them weigh, ing over thirty pounds. Again, regarding the sam-sou fisli, known here as skipjack. Mr. Stead says: "So far as present records go this fish Is a native of New South Wales bnly. . . It grows to a height of at least twenty inches, most of tlie large pnes captured, however, are considerably below that size." Here we have them over three feet long and up to forty pounds in weight. No book on fishes of Australia can possibly be a comprehensive publication without a thorough investigation of the wonderful variety of edible fish in tlie waters or the northwest of western Australia, the great niajoritv of which- are nbsolutelv unknown to the fisherv departments of Australia, I have een at least twenty different varieties of edible fishes here which 1 have not come across in New South Wales, nor can I tace them in either of Mr. Steads hooks Fishes of Australia and Edible Fishes of New South Wajcs,
