CRUISES OF THE "MICHAEL SARS 



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Similar catches are taken off the coasts of Norway and 

 Iceland ; near and just beyond the continental edge there are 

 larvae of red-fish, and on the bank in 30 or 40 fathoms of water 

 there are larvae and eggs of cod and haddock. It was interest- 

 ing to find the eggs and larvae of these fish at Station 72, where 

 the bottom-temperature was between 2' C. and 4.6° C, whereas 

 nearer land, where the bottom-temperature was o' C, or even 

 less, they were absent. 





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Fig. 96. — French Fishing Schooner. 



At Station 72 we sighted the first fishing-boats (Fig. 96). Fishing 

 They belonged to Frenchmen from the Island of Miquelon, ;j;f^^^"'f°",,d- 

 south of Newfoundland, and as the weather was good, we paid land Bank. 

 them a visit, spending a very pleasant time with these hos- 

 pitable fishermen, who willingly gave us information about their 

 industry (Fig. 97). They sail from Brittany and Normandy in 

 April, and reach the Newfoundland Bank in May, at which time 

 of the year there is ice over the whole northerly portion of the 

 bank. They commence fishing in the south-eastern portion, 

 which is probably the only part having warm bottom-water, and 

 collect their bait by lowering nets with cod-heads in them. 



