Beautiful Fish: Trumpetfish -By Al Bezanson

The head occupies almost one-third and the snout about one-fourth of the body length.  The mouth is small, situated somewhat obliquely at the tip of the snout, and the lower jaw projects a little beyond the upper.

There are only two records of the trumpetfish from the Gulf of Maine: a specimen taken at Rockport, Mass. (north side of Cape Ann) in September 1865, preserved in the collection of the Essex Institute, where it was examined and identified by Goode and Bean[90] and a second taken on the northern edge of Georges Bank by the trawler Flying Cloud on October 6, 1947, in a haul at 70 fathoms.[91] Like other tropical fishes, however, it is not so rare west of Cape Cod, and a few small ones are taken at Woods Hole almost every year.

From fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) online courtesy of MBL/WHOI http://www.gma.org/fogm/Fistularia_tabacaria.htm