=Red Snapper.=--The red snapper (_Lutianus aya_) is the most noted fish of all the snapper family (Lutianidæ), although there are others which are highly prized, such as the gray snapper. It sometimes reaches a length of two or three feet and a weight of from 10 to 35 pounds. It is particularly abundant in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and off the west coast of Florida. The red snapper bears shipping better than most of the Gulf fish, and Pensacola is one of the principal points where the fish are packed in ice as soon as possible after capture and dispatched to northern markets. _Composition._-- FRESH. DRY. Water, 78.46 percent Protein, 19.20 „ 91.75 percent Fat, 1.03 „ 4.70 „ Ash, 1.31 „ 6.05 „ This is another one of the fishes in which the edible portion is almost exclusively protein, the fat appearing only in small quantities. =Rock Bass=; =Redeye=; =Goggle-eye= (_Ambloplites rupestris_).--The rock bass is a very common fish particularly abundant in the fresh waters of the northern central portions of the United States. It is the fish which the American boy, living near small streams, most delights to catch. The size of the rock bass varies largely according to the magnitude of the body of water in which it lives. The average weight of the fish in streams of ordinary size is probably about a pound, though often it is considerably more. The rock bass has been propagated to some extent by the Bureau of Fisheries and has been introduced into waters where it formerly did not occur.