34 THE SILVERY HOSTS OF THE NORTH SEA. 



destroyed on the British coasts, would give 19 

 herrings, equal to 6 Ibs. meat food, for each member 

 of the population of the United Kingdom for every 

 day in the year. 



SUMMARY. 



Herrings destroyed by cod, ling, and 



hake off Scotch coasts .... 29,400,000,000 



By gannets. 1,110,000,000 



Norwegian cod ........ 243,000,000,000 



Total . 273,510,000.000 



A total which, if translated into bullocks, would 

 make a herd numbering nearly one hundred and 

 ninety millions. In addition to these are the dog- 

 fish, the whale, coal-fish, porpoise, seal, pollack, cuttle- 

 fish, salmon, and shark, with myriad clouds of wild 

 birds not included, all of them implacable hunters of 

 the herring, whose devastations it would be impos- 

 sible to estimate. We may safely assume that the 

 herrings captured by all the fishermen engaged in 

 the North Sea do not amount to the thousandth 

 part of the number destroyed by enemies which have 

 not, in comparison, one tenth of their value. 



