. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. x_ TIIE CHUB MACKEREL. The history of the Chub Mackerel on our coast is a peculiar one. At the beginning of the present century it was exceedingly abundant all along the coast of New England and New York. Mitchill remarked that it " comes occasionally in prodigious numbers to the coast of New York in autumn. This was memorably the case in 17S1 and 1813, when the bays, creeks and coves were literally alive with them, and th
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. x_ TIIE CHUB MACKEREL. The history of the Chub Mackerel on our coast is a peculiar one. At the beginning of the present century it was exceedingly abundant all along the coast of New England and New York. Mitchill remarked that it " comes occasionally in prodigious numbers to the coast of New York in autumn. This was memorably the case in 17S1 and 1813, when the bays, creeks and coves were literally alive with them, and the markets full of ; DeKay states that in early November, 1828, they were very abundant, and many persons were poisoned by eating them. Capt. Epes YV. Merchant, of Gloucester, a veteran fishing skipper, who has been familiar with the fisheries of Massachusetts Bay for the past seventy years, told me that the Thimble-eye were so abundant from 1S14 to 1820 that with three men and a boy and a small vessel he could catch ten barrels of them, or about three thousand fish, in a day. From these testimonies it would appear that between 1840 and 1850 the species, formerly so abundant, had disappeared along the whole coast line. In an essay by the writer, written in the spring of 1879, this sen- tence occurs: "For ten years past the Smithsonian Institution, with its collectors stationed at various points from Halifax to Galveston, has tried in vain to secure one of them, and it is probable that no museum in the Avorld possesses a species of this fish, once so ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896. Boston : Estes and Lauriat
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