The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . d or food, and have their fixed habitations, or places of refuge, amongstthe crevices of rocks, or amongst the zostera, tangles, or sea-weed, on theprecipitous slopes forming the sea-coast, or the bed of the sea, or on theplateaux or sand-banks. Also those amongst the class of shore fishes whichare always on the move in search of prey, shunning, as a rule, the light ofday. Each kind has its particular fancy in the choice bo
The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . d or food, and have their fixed habitations, or places of refuge, amongstthe crevices of rocks, or amongst the zostera, tangles, or sea-weed, on theprecipitous slopes forming the sea-coast, or the bed of the sea, or on theplateaux or sand-banks. Also those amongst the class of shore fishes whichare always on the move in search of prey, shunning, as a rule, the light ofday. Each kind has its particular fancy in the choice both of its lurking-places, where it rests by day, on the watch for any prey that may passwithin reach, and for its hunting-grounds, which it frequents by night, some Physicalische Untersuchungen im Adriatischen und Sicilisch-Ionischen Meere wahrend desSommers, 1880. Von den Akademie Professoren Julius Wolf und Josef Luksch. Wien:Gerold. 1881. The maps appended to this work were exhibited at the Geographical Congressat Venice, 1881, for which the authors received the gold medal. A reference to this work isrecommended to those whom the subject may specially interest. I. AND THE FISH THEREOF. preferring well-overgrown declivities or zostera meadows, whilst others seekthe rocky shores, or the creviced precipices, according to the nature of theirfood, tarrying, nevertheless, in the vicinity of their favourite resorts, andhovering about within given limits, both horizontal and vertical. The sea water proper of the Adriatic, in respect of the degree of saltness,is about the same as the Atlantic under the tropics, so that southern But it has been shown that, similar to the lochs of Scotland and thefjords of Norway, the salt water is often intermingled with fresh water,arising from the limestone springs, which abound especially in the Quarnero,so that the surface waters may be fresh, or nearly so, whilst the depths areas salt as in mid-ocean. This circumstance alone accoun
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