GAME FISH OF THE SEA. 287 



DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



I HARDLY hold myself justified in enumerating the Cod, 

 Haddock_, Whiting, Halibut, and Flounder among Game Fishes, 

 but as it is probable that some of my readers do regard them as 

 such, and pursue them for the pleasure of the capture, indepen- 

 dent of profit, I shall proceed to describe the first three briefly, 

 and shall devote a few pages in another portion of this work to 

 a consideration of the modes and methods of their capture. 



The huge Halibut [Hippoglossus Vulgaris), and the Flounder 

 [Plewonectes Dentatus), I shall content myself with naming, as 

 I cannot bring myself to regard them as fit for any but culinary 

 purposes. In like manner the Hake, the Cusk, the Pollock, 

 and many others of the Cod family, I shall pass in silence as 

 objects only of casual pursuit, except to the professional fisher- 

 man, who plies his daily toil to earn his daily bread. 



