. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. SALMONIO^. ABDOMTNAL 139 THE CAPELIN. Mallotus Villotus; Cuvier. Of this beautiful little fish, which inhabits the northern seas only, never coming farther south than the shores of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, I am unable to oflfar any representation to my readers, never having seen a specimen or engraving. He is very nearly allied to the Smelts, from which he differs princi- pally in the smallness of his teeth. He
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. SALMONIO^. ABDOMTNAL 139 THE CAPELIN. Mallotus Villotus; Cuvier. Of this beautiful little fish, which inhabits the northern seas only, never coming farther south than the shores of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, I am unable to oflfar any representation to my readers, never having seen a specimen or engraving. He is very nearly allied to the Smelts, from which he differs princi- pally in the smallness of his teeth. He is stated in Mr. Perley's report on the Fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to be "from four to seven inches in length, the under jaw longer than the upper, the color of the back greenish, the under surface of the body silvery. They usually appear about Miscon and in the bay of Chaleur early in May; but sometimes not until nearly the end of that month. The Cod fishery does not commence until the arrival of the Capelin, which continues near the shores until the end of ; Mr. Perley proceeds to state that, in consequence of the " wanton destruction of the proper food of the Cod—Herring and Capelin— which arc taken in immense quantities, not for immediate eating, or for curing, or for bait, but for manuring the ground," the Cod fishery is utterly declining, the fisheries going to waste, and the establishments deserted and going to ruin. " In a representation," he adds, " made to the Canadian Legislature by a fisherman of Gaspc, it is stated that this fisherman had seen five hundred barrels of Capelin taken in one tide expressly for manure; and that he has also seen one thousand barrels of Herring caught at one time, and not taken away, but left to rot upon the ; It is in this connection that I have here enumerated the Capelin ; for ho cannot bo taken with the hook, so far as 1 can learn, and there- fore is not game. But fo
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