550 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Fishing. — The largest fish are caught in the Bay of Dublin and on the 

 Nymph Bank. It is frequently caught in the German Ocean, near Heli- 

 goland, on the west coast of Schleswig near Sylt, and on the Doggers 

 Bank, in the Skagerak, the Kattegat, and on the Danish coasts, espe- 

 cially near Elsiuore. 



Gadus virens, L., lives in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Polar 

 Sea as far south as the 4:6th degree northern latitude, and is found from 

 the British coasts as far as Finmarken and Spitzbergen, and from the 

 Baltic to the coasts of North America. In Iceland it keeps chiefly near 

 the south and west side of the island and does not seem to leave this 

 coast ; on the Swedish coast it is found near Bohuslan ; near the British 

 coasts it is found in the Frith of Forth and near Palperro. From there 

 on it does not occur till the Mediterranean is reached. 



Fishing.— On the coasts of the Faroe Islands and Norway these fish 

 during certain years appear in such quantities in summer and autumn 

 that nearly all the bays are filled with them ; this is also the case near 

 the Isle ot Man and in the Mediterranean. On the north coast of Jut- 

 land they also occasionally appear in large numbers ; but in the south 

 of Denmark they are but seldom caught, and then chiefly in spriug ;»pd 

 autumn. Near Greenland they are seldom caught, more frequently in 

 Davis Strait, on the bank and near Boston. 



Gadus luscus, i., chiefly lives in the Polar Sea and the northern seas 

 but goes farther south than the above-mentioned varieties. Near Great 

 Britain, as far north as the coast of Sweden and Norway, east on the coast 

 of Siberia as tar as the Obi Eiver, it is a most highly esteemed fish. It 

 is found south on the coasts of Germany, the Netherlands, France, and 

 Portugal (near Lisbon), and as far as the western part of the Mediter- 

 ranean, the Bay of Naples, and Sicily ; also near Greenland; it is found 

 at a depth of 90 feet, 1 J miles east southeast of Lowestoft. 



Gadus merlaiigus, L., is found far north, but not in any great number. 

 Its home is therefore south of the 60th degree northern latitude. It is 

 not found near the east of Greenland and the north of Iceland, and it is 

 rare near the south of Iceland and the Faroe Islands; it occurs frequently 

 near the south coast of Norway, near Arendal, near Great Britain and 

 the Orkney Islands. On the heights of Arendal the percentage of brine 

 at a depth of 364 fathoms was 3.53. Near Iceland Faber found it all 

 the year round only in the bay of Beikiavick. It is found at a depth of 

 204 feet east-northeast of Bamborough. 



Fishing.— :S car the Danish coasts, in the German Ocean and in the 

 Baltic, it is common from May to September, especially on the Dogger's 

 Bank, the Nymph Bank, and on the south coast of Iceland ; it is also very 

 frequent on the coasts of Southwestern Europe. It does not seem to 

 occur on the western coast of the Cimbric peninsula, because it likes a 

 sandy and moory bottom at a depth of about 300 feet, and therefore 

 scarcely ever enters the shallow bays. 



Gadus nanus Faher, the northern dwarf codfish, is found near the south 



