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Updated: May 7, 2025
Some writers believed the allied species, Trichiurus haumela, found in the Indian Ocean and Archipelago and in various parts of the Pacific, to be specifically the same. The cutlass-fish is abundant in the St. John's River, Florida, in the Indian River region, and in the Gulf of Mexico.
I have sent a set of the sails home, as they are beautifully cut and form a model for a fast-sailing boat. When a school of these are under sail together they are frequently mistaken for a school of native boats. The fish referred to is in all likelihood Histiophorus gladius, a species very closely related to, if not identical with, our own. The Cutlass-fish
Richard Hill states that in Jamaica this species is much esteemed, and is fished for assiduously in a "hole," as it is called that is, a deep portion of the waters off Fort Augusta. This is the best fishing-place for the cutlass-fish, Trichiurus. The fishing takes place before day; all lines are pulled in as fast as they are thrown out, with the certainty that the cutlass has been hooked.
The cutlass-fish, Trichiurus lepturus, unfortunately known in eastern Florida and at Pensacola as the swordfish; at New Orleans, in the St. John's River, and at Brunswick, Georgia, it is known as the "silver eel"; on the coast of Texas as "saber-fish," while in the Indian River region it is called the "skip-jack."
No one of these names is particularly applicable, and, the latter being preoccupied, it would seem advantageous to use in this country the name "cutlass-fish," which is current for the same species in the British West Indies. Its appearance is very remarkable on account of its long, compressed form and its glistening, silvery color.
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