IIADUOCK. 



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SUBBIUCHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGIl. 



GADIDM. 



THE HADDOCK. 



Movrhua eeglefinus, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 331. 



,, ,, Haddock, Flem, Brit. An. p. 191, sp. 77. 



,, ,, Hadock, Willughby, p. 170, L. 2. 



Gadns ,, Linn£us. Bloch, pt. ii. pi. 62. 



,, ,, Hadock, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol.iii. p. 241. 



„ ,, Haddock, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 59. 



The Haddock is almost as well known as the Common 

 Cod ; and from the quantity taken at numerous localities 

 round the coast, and the facility with which the flesh can 

 be preserved, it is a fish of considerable value. Besides 

 frequenting the coast of Great Britain, from the extreme 

 north to the Land's End, the Haddock may be traced nearly 

 all round the shores of Ireland ; and the largest examples 

 have been taken in Dublin Bay and off the Nymph Bank, 

 Though ranging over a considerable space both north and 

 south of the geographical situation of this country, the Had- 

 dock does not exist either in the Baltic or in the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



Haddocks swim in immense shoals, but are uncertain as to 



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