. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . THE CHUB MACKEREL. The history of the Chub Mackerel on our coast is a peculiar one. Atthe beginning of the present century it was exceedingly abundant all alongthe coast of New England and New York. Mitchill remarked thatit comes occasionally in prodigious numbers to the coast of New Yorkin autumn. This was memorably the case in 17S1 and 1813, when thebays, creeks and coves were literally alive with them, and the marketsfull of them. DeKay states that
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . THE CHUB MACKEREL. The history of the Chub Mackerel on our coast is a peculiar one. Atthe beginning of the present century it was exceedingly abundant all alongthe coast of New England and New York. Mitchill remarked thatit comes occasionally in prodigious numbers to the coast of New Yorkin autumn. This was memorably the case in 17S1 and 1813, when thebays, creeks and coves were literally alive with them, and the marketsfull of them. DeKay states that in early November, 1S2S, they were very abundant,and many persons were poisoned by eating them. Capt. Epes W. Merchant, of Gloucester, a veteran fishing skipper, whohas been familiar with the fisheries of Massachusetts Bay for the pastseventy years, told me that the Thimble-eye were so abundant from 1S14to 1820 that with three men and a boy and a small vessel he could catchten barrels of them, or about three thousand fish, in a day. From these testimonies it would appear that between 1840 and 1S50the species, formerly so abundant, had di
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