. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE HERRIXG. THE HERRING AND ITS ALLIES. But why, good fisherman, Am I thought meat for you, that never yet Had angUng rod cast towards me ? MiDDLETON AND Dekkar: Moll Cut Purse, 1611. Between dark hills on either side The salt sea-loch runs for a mile, And now, sun-charmed to a smile. Gleams bright its flowing frothing tide. But lo ! each wave to silver turns In dazzling fire the whole loch burns. Millions of Herring dart and splash Each one a
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE HERRIXG. THE HERRING AND ITS ALLIES. But why, good fisherman, Am I thought meat for you, that never yet Had angUng rod cast towards me ? MiDDLETON AND Dekkar: Moll Cut Purse, 1611. Between dark hills on either side The salt sea-loch runs for a mile, And now, sun-charmed to a smile. Gleams bright its flowing frothing tide. But lo ! each wave to silver turns In dazzling fire the whole loch burns. Millions of Herring dart and splash Each one a living lightning flash. William Sharp: A Herring-Shoal, 1884. 'THHE Herring family contributes more generously than any other group of aquatic animals to the support of man, and the Herring is beyond question the most important of food-fishes. Distributed throughout the whole of the North Atlantic, it affords occupation for immense fleets of fishing boats, and, according to Huxley, the number taken every year out of the North Sea and Atlantic is at least 3,000,000,000 with a weight of at least 1,500,000,000 pounds. According to Dambeck, the average yield in Norway from i860 to 1870 amounted to 1,452,000,000 pounds. Holdsworth placed the yield of Scotland in 1873 at 188,000,000 pounds, their capture requiring 15,095 boats with crews of 45,494 men. In the same period in the English fisheries he states that 15,321 boats were used. France, Ireland and Belgium have also Herring fisheries of considerable extent, and Germany in less degree. In 1874, according to compilations and estimates of Prof. Hind, 200,000,000 pounds of Herring were taken. 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. New York, Standard book co.
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