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CHAPTER VIII. 



THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE OF SEA AND RIVER FISHING 

 —NEWSPAPERS— REVIEWS — MAGAZINES — BOOKS ON 

 SEA FISHING, ICHTHYOLOGY, AND PISCICULTURE — 

 THE LITERARY " OUTCOME " OF THE FISHERIES 

 EXHIBITION. 



Perhaps the subject taken in hand in this little volume 

 might have been considered fairly concluded in the last 

 chapter, as the survey in the preceding papers has covered, 

 though necessarily in a circumscribed and imperfect 

 manner, the whole field of Fishing Literature from the 

 earliest times to the present. Still it may not be out of 

 place to add a few words in reference to the current 

 literature of fishing ; and a list of some of the chief works 

 which deal with subjects more or less allied to that 

 immediately in hand. 



A weekly newspaper, specially devoted to Fish and 

 Fishing is The Fishing Gazette, most ably edited by 

 Mr. R. B. Marston, who is well known as a learned and 

 skilful angler, and for the interest he takes in pisciculture, 

 especially in reference to "coarse" fish. The Angler's 

 Journal is another, edited by Captain Alfred, of Moorgate 

 Street. The Field has, from its first starting, devoted 

 much space to angling, of which department Mr. Francis 

 Francis has been editor for many years. A large portion 

 of his Angling, and kindred works, has first appeared in 

 its pages. Land and Water, to which the late Mr. Frank 



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