See quot. 1859.
1843. He had caught, one afternoon, in company with a crew of political cronies, a small carful of striped-bass and Lafayette fish, in the East river, and was declared the “Hero of Kipp’s bay.”—Cornelius Mathews, ‘Writings,’ p. 266.
1859. Lafayette fish (Leiostomus obliquus), a delicious sea fish, which appears in the summer in great abundance on the Jersey coast…. [The name] was given it on account of its appearance one summer coinciding with the last visit of General Lafayette to America (Bartlett).
