. The world of animal life. Zoology. 326 THE WORLD OF ANIMAL LIFE The Pike is not so rounded in form as most other fish, its head being extended into a long flattened snout. Its jaws are furnished with very formidable teeth. In colour it is green and yellow on the back, and white underneath. THE HERRING (Family Clupeid^) The Herring is unquestionably nearly related to the Salmon proper, and it was formerly included in the Salmonidae, but now the various species of herring have been placed in a separate family. It is a most interesting sight to see the herring-fleet sail out of the harbour of o
. The world of animal life. Zoology. 326 THE WORLD OF ANIMAL LIFE The Pike is not so rounded in form as most other fish, its head being extended into a long flattened snout. Its jaws are furnished with very formidable teeth. In colour it is green and yellow on the back, and white underneath. THE HERRING (Family Clupeid^) The Herring is unquestionably nearly related to the Salmon proper, and it was formerly included in the Salmonidae, but now the various species of herring have been placed in a separate family. It is a most interesting sight to see the herring-fleet sail out of the harbour of one of our coast towns before sundown. The herring,. Herring with which all must be familiar, can only be caught at night, and as it lives in immense shoals it is taken by means of drift nets attached to bladders, which you may see stretched in long lines in the water. The set their nets when they go out at night, and early in the morning they take them in again. The fish are often collected from the different boats by steamers, and carried off" straight to the markets. As the herring is very erratic in its movements, a boat may be very lucky one night and get nothing at all the next, while the fishing at a station may be very successful one season and a complete failure the following year. The herring, which is a migratory fish, spends the winter in the deeper parts of the ocean, where its food is most abundant; but when the warmer weather returns it comes in in great shoals to the shallower water of bays and river-mouths for the purpose of deposit-. 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 Smith, Fred, pseud. , ed. London, Glasgow [etc. ] Blackie and son, Ltd.
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