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ern parts of both oceans, and find their favorite feeding- 

 grounds on those shallow spots known as 'banks.' The 

 Grand Banks of Newfoundland are constantly visited by 

 fishermen from Europe and America, and have aptly been 



FIG. 129. Cod (Gadus morrhua). After Storer. 



said to be the richest banks in the world, honoring every 

 draft upon them. 



Allied to the cod is the strange group of flatfishes, the 

 halibut, flounders (fig. 130), turbo t, and the like. In 



FIG. 130. Winter Flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus). After Goode. 



early life these are symmetrical like other fishes, but as 

 they grow older they turn over on one side, and then the 



