FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
PADDLE-FISH or "SPOONBILL" CAT
Ward, Artemas. 1923. The Encyclopedia of Food. New York, Number Fifty, Union Square.
is also known locally as "spade-fish," a large, smooth-skinned, scaleless, fresh-water fish of firm, sturgeon-like flesh and greenish-black eggs which make excellent "caviar." It frequents the lowland streams and bayous of the Mississippi and Ohio and has been known to exceede six feet in length and a weight of 150 pounds.
