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Fishes as Food for Man 



from Killisnoo in Alaska to Otaru in Japan, and to Strielok in 

 Siberia. Goode estimates the herring product of the North 

 Atlantic at 1,500,000,000 pounds annually. In 1881 Professor 

 Huxley used these words: 



FIG. 215. Great Parrot-fish, or Guacamaia, Pseudoscarus guacamaia 

 Bloch & Schneider. Florida. 



"It is said that 2,500,000,000 or thereabout of herrings 

 are every year taken out of the North Sea and the Atlantic. 

 Suppose we assume the number to be 3,000,000,000 so as to be 

 quite safe. It is a large number undoubtedly, but what does 



FIG. 216. Striped Mullet, Mugil cephalus (L.). Wood's Hole, Mass. 



it come to? Not more than that of the herrings which may be 

 contained in one shoal, if it covers half a dozen square miles, 

 and shoals of much larger size are on record. It is safe to say 

 that scattered through the North Sea and the Atlantic, at one 

 and the same time, there must be scores of shoals, any one of 



