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 ‘ Herring 
Kings’ of the far North-west. 
Viviearous Fisu.—We are so accustomed to 
associate the production of young fishes with 
egos 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 im 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 
