THE SCARCER FISHES OF THE ABERDEEN MARKET 



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THE SCARCER FISHES OF THE ABERDEEN 

 MARKET Part II. 



By D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. 

 {Continued from "Scottish Naturalist? 1917, page 249.) 



We have dealt at considerable length with the Aberdeen 

 records of Chimaera and with other matters concerning the 

 same fish, for its history is a complicated one. But we may 

 deal much more briefly with our other records of the rarer 

 fish, for they indicate, for the most part, very much simpler 

 phenomena. Let us begin with the King-fish, the most 

 striking of all our British fishes in form and colour, and one 

 of the most beautiful fishes in the world. 



II. The King-fish, or Opah (Lampris luna y Grmel.). 

 We have the following records from Aberdeen : 



Date. 



May 

 Oct. 

 June 



July 



Aug. 



Sept. 



June 



July 



Aug. 



Nov. 



1883 

 1900 

 1 901 

 1901 

 1901 

 1901 

 1901 

 1901 

 1901 

 1901 

 1901 

 1 90 1 

 1902 

 1902 

 1902 

 1902 



(Th 



June 

 Aug. 

 June 



Ju'y 



Aug. 



Sept. 



No. of 

 Fish. 



I 

 1 

 I 

 I 

 I 

 I 



3 

 2 

 1 



3 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 1 



t ii+.r Statistical 



Locality. Area> 



25 m. N.W. of Flugga, 75 f. ... VI 



Scalloway, inshore .... X 



80 m. N.N.W. of Hoy, 125 f. (hooked) . . C 



40 m. N.N.W. of Foula (hooked) . . IX 

 67 m. N. of Noup Head (hooked) . .IX 



90 m. N. by W. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



65 m. N. from Noup Head (hooked) . . IX 



60 m. N. from Noup Head (hooked) . . IX 



90 m. N.W. by W. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



45 m. N. by E. from Foula (hooked) . . IX 



45 m. N. by E. from Foula (hooked) . . IX 



90 m. N.W. by N. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



80 m. N. by W. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



100 m. N. by E. from N. Ronaldshay (hooked) . XI 



200 m. E. of Aberdeen (hooked) . . XXVI 



Found on the beach at Usan, Montrose . . XXVIII 



1909 

 1909 

 1910 

 1910 

 1910 

 1910 

 1910 

 1910 

 1910 

 1910 

 1910 



e first of the above was recorded by Prof. Cossar Ewart, 

 Scottish Fishery Board's Report, ii., p. 80, 1883 \ the re?t 

 by Dr Fulton, ibid. (pt. iii.), vol. xix, p. 290, 1901 ; xx., 

 p. 541, 1902 ; xxi., p. 228, 1903.) 



Off Flannan Islands (hooked) . K 



190 m. E. byN. of Aberdeen (hooked) . . XX 

 Off Rockall (hooked) ....... 



22 m. N. of Flannan Islands (hooked) . . K 



80 m. N. \ W. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



80 m. N. by W. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



80 m. N.N.W. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



80 m. N.W. by W. 1 N. f 1 om Hoy (hooked) . C 



80 m. N.W. by N. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



75 m. S.W. of Barra Head (hooked) . . U 



80 m. N. W. from Hoy (hooked) . . C 



