Table 7. --Numbers of spearfishes handled at the Suo 

 market (by months and by species; upper figure is 

 for 1934, lower figure for 1935) 



The broadbill swordfish is taken only rarely around the whole island, the greatest number 

 of landings being made at Takao; these landings, however, are not numerous enough to be recorded 

 in the statistics. At Suo in most years they are very rare, but in Noveniber and December of 1936 

 they were rather abundant and several were landed every day. 



B. Spawning Habits 



It appears that except for the broadbill swordfish almost nothing has been recorded con- 

 cerning the life history of the spearfishes. In Taiwan large numbers of spearfishes are landed 

 and they migrate in rather dense schools into the waters east of the island, but these migrations 

 have almost no direct connection with spawning. However, among the sailfish and shortnosed 



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