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7. [[underlined]]Local Market Preferences[[/underlined]]

Small fish 8" to 10" in total length are abundant in all the markets observed. Since fish are almost always sold in the round as whole fish, the smaller ones seem to be more popular. A list of species observed in the market in order of market preference cannot be rendered accurately. Nearly all fishes caught in this area are used as food. Dried sardines are used for camel fodder. To my knowledge no fish is used for fertilizer. 

Bait fishes are sardines, halfbeaks, silversides, small scads, and any kind of fish cut into strips or chunks. Cuttlefish is prized as bait. For wire traps, blue claw crabs and mole lobsters are used. Sand worms are dug from the sand and used for bait on small hooks. The names of the common marine animals used for bait are given in Group B. 

8. [[underlined]]Other Known Species[[/underlined]]

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English Name | Persian Gulf | Scientific Name | Similar in U.S. waters
[[/underlined]]

bluefin tuna | jibab | [[underlined]]Thunnus[[/underlined]] | Tuna

bonito | " [[ditto for: jibab]] | [[underlined]]Scomber microlepidotus[[/underlined]] | [[blank]]

marlin | silsal | [[underlined]]Hakaira[[/underlined]] | marlin

albacore | jibab | [[underlined]]Germo alalunga[[/underlined]] | albacore

In May and June large schools of jibab, bonito and tuna, were frequently seen cutting and jumping at the surface of the sea from a mile to 3 miles off Ras Tanura. These fish would never strike at any lure, and apparently are seldom caught. 

A blue fin tuna occurs in the Gulf, but we did not land one. Tuna have been caught by rod and reel off east pier at Ras Tanura.

A type of lampara net might be effective in catching bonito and small tuna.

At buoy #7, Ras Tanura, in May, I saw two or three marlin jumping out of water about a 1/2 mile distant. Sport fishermen report them frequently. 

I saw one albacore, [[underlined]]Germo alalunga[[/underlined]], the tuna like fish with very long pectoral fins ^[[, in Tarut Bay.]]

[[underlined]]Marine animals other than fish forms[[/underlined]]: - An important additional source of food, are crustacea, molluscs, porpoise, and sea turtles. Poisonous sea snakes, less than 4 feet in length, are abundant, but useless as food or bait. They do not molest swimmers. 

The crustacea include edible shrimp, abundant in Tarut Bay, ^[[which]] are popular among ARAMCO employees, and 300 lb. landings are not unusual at the Ras Tanura fish