106 FISH HARVESTING. 



dertake herring-fishing in North-western- waters 

 on a large scale, judiciously applying capital, 

 skilled labour, and good management, will reap 

 an ample harvest, and become the real c Herring 

 Kings ' of the far North-west. 



VIVIPAROUS FISH. We are so accustomed to 

 associate the production of young fishes with 

 eggs and milt, familiar to all as hard and soft roe 

 in the cured herring, that it is difficult to believe 

 in the existence of a fish bringing forth live 

 young, just as do dogs, cats, rats, and mice only 

 with this difference, that, in the case of the fish, 

 the young are perfect in every detail, when 

 launched into the water, as the parent, and swim 

 away self-dependent, to feed or be fed on, as 

 good or ill-luck befals the little wanderer. The 

 woodcut represents the female fish with the 

 young in situ, together with others scattered 

 round her, having fallen out when the walls of 

 the abdomen were dissected open : the drawing 

 was made from a female fish I brought from 

 Vancouver Island, and now exhibiting in the 

 Fish Room of the British Museum. 



At San Francisco, as early as April, I saw large 

 numbers of viviparous fish in the market for 

 sale; but then, it is an open question whether 

 these fish really arrive at an earlier period of 



