Hogfish

Every hogfish and lamprey in American waters -- that's a near-fish that sucks the blood of other fish, you know -- should be exterminated just in the same way that the farmers of the country are making away with the Canada thistle. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)

The aggregate catch was 380,375 pounds, having a value of $13,003, the principal species being hogfish and squeteague. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

From birth, the lionfish eats ravenously, its diet made up of the juveniles of key species that help maintain and promote the equilibrium of the reef-snapper, hogfish, parrotfish, banded coral shrimp. ❋ Nathan Thornburgh (2011)

Cousin Calico's (TM) prize-winning hogfish have been fiendishly fishnapped by some rowdy hogfish rustlers! ❋ Unknown (2010)

"They taste a lot like hogfish," says Mr. Dugan of the Lion Hunters. ❋ By ERIK OLSEN (2010)

Develop important logical thinking, problem solving, and memory skills as you take an active -- and interactive -- role in solving the mystery of Cousin Calico's rustled hogfish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Always the brave adventurers, Freddie and Luther offer to find the rustlers 'secret hideout, rescue the hogfish, and wrangle those rambunctious rustlers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While the fins are venomous, the rest of the lionfish is mighty good eating, almost like hogfish, Akins said. ❋ PhysOrg Team (2010)

"They're comparable to hogfish," said Blakeman, who recently pan-fried 15 lionfish on his boat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dead eels, dead hogfish, dead coral -- including big coral head 5 - to 6-feet wide, bleached white with only fringes of decaying tissue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The researchers also documented the presence of whelks and hogfish, which feast on barnacles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If hogfish, coveted by connoisseurs for its sweet, delicate flavor, isn't available, sidle up to the bar and ask a working fisherman about catching them.

But food is the main attraction: hogfish, speared in nearby coral reefs, and heavy doses of shrimp: in po 'boys and potpies, stuffed in tacos or with crabmeat, battered with coconut or bound with bacon.

Order the hogfish special the Killer and savor the sweet, flaky fish on Cuban bread with or without the smother of Swiss cheese, onions and mushrooms ($14.95).

Once aboard the Kristal, officers initially found eight undersized stone crab claws, 17 undersized live spiny lobsters, one undersized mutton snapper and one undersized hogfish, reports say. ❋ Unknown (2008)

‘porkpisce’ (Spenser), that is sea-hog, or more accurately hogfish {58} will be ‘porpesse’, and then ‘porpoise’, as it is now. ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)

n Circle hooks, a de-hooking device and a venting tool are required for anglers fishing with natural baits for Gulf reef fish species (snappers, groupers, seabass, amberjack, grey triggerfish, hogfish, red porgy and golden tilefish). ❋ Unknown (2009)