This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...from the net, carefully prevented from touching anything made of wood, and passed round the scudding-poles as many times as the fishermen desire to get lasts of herring at their next haul. Habitat.--White Sea, extending into some parts of the Arctic Ocean; the colder to the temperate portions of the Atlantic, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...from the net, carefully prevented from touching anything made of wood, and passed round the scudding-poles as many times as the fishermen desire to get lasts of herring at their next haul. Habitat.--White Sea, extending into some parts of the Arctic Ocean; the colder to the temperate portions of the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic. In the Orkneys, Lowe observed that the Shetland Isles swarm with them in April and later, the east coast of Caithness in August, the Hebrides at the latter end of the year. The Sounds at certain seasons are alive with the fry. I have already alluded to their distribution along Scotland, the west coast of which country is studded with lochs from which they have commenced more or less to absent themselves, while along the east coast, possessing but three large bays or firths, they have latterly forsaken their haunts about 7 miles out to sea and receded to 20, 30, or even 100 miles. I have also alluded to the distribution of the herring on the British coast, while it is common around Ireland. The size to which herrings attain varies. De Caux observes that the largest he has personally seen was 154. inches in length, but that Mr. Utting, of Great Yarmouth, had one which was 17 inches long, but the usual average off our east coast is from 10 to II inches, and if full weighing from 4 to 6 ounces: a full one, i i-f inches long, will weigh 8 ounces. Buckland stated that the largest herrings submitted to him were from the Shetlands; the milt and roe were but slightly developed, they were very fat and as long as 94. inches and cJ-ounces weight. Sims, at Aberdeen, weighed some full ones, 12 inches long, and they were only 8-J-ounces; the largest example he found in 1880 was 12 inches, and weighed 9f ounces; it was a full...
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