The black-fish. 1643, N.E.D.

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1765.  A Fishing-Smack lately brought in a great number of Tortaug, a sort of Fish very rare in this place.—Boston Evening Post, Aug. 12.

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1823.  [They are] angling for cod, haddock, and tautog from the high and craggy rocks [at Nahant].—Mass. Spy, Aug. 27.

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1824.  

        I’m the god of sea, your perceive by my head;
The sharks and the blue-fish behold me with dread,
  And I rule the tautaug and menhaden.
The Microscope, Albany, Feb. 21: from the Providence Journal.    

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1843.  Pull away—here he is—Tautaug—three-pounder…. This is sport. One—two—three—nine Bass, and thirty Tautaug.—N. E. Silliman, ‘Gallop among American Scenery,’ p. 173–4 (N.Y. and Phila.).

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