| No estimates of stock size or mortality are available for tautog in North Carolina. |
| Favorite fish include cod, salmon, winter flounder, haddock, striped bass, pollock, hake, bluefish, and, in southern New England, tautog. |
| The flesh of a tautog is very firm, and he will live a long time out of water. |
| It was a damp little hollow, and Mr. tautog could not flop out into the sea again. |
| The fishermen were beginning to haul in weakfish and an occasional tautog, or blackfish. |
| It was almost time to head home, to the planks and the knives, with a tautog that did not behave like a tautog and a few striped bass. |
