466 MODERN SEA FISHING 



and suchlike haunting the rocks. ' Sarcelle ' himself, as a result 

 of fishing from seven o'clock to two o'clock in the morning, gives 

 three small bogue and five oblade to match as the bag made 

 by four rods. The list of fish compiled by this gentleman in 

 1894, after frequent visits to the Genoa fish market is, as might 

 be expected, headed by the tunny. Then follow the striped 

 bonito, mackerel, the sport-giving lichia family, mullet of two 

 kinds (pink and red), and surmullet, swordfish, the great sea 

 perch, and a number of beautifully marked fish of the serranus 

 tribe, wrasses, dogfish, hake, gropers, flying fish, a variety of 

 breams, sea pike, conger eel, a number of gurnards, flat fishes, 

 including the turbot, prawns, and shrimps. The Scitzna aquila, 

 which is supposed to be universal in the Mediterranean, appears 

 to be scarce in the Gulf of Genoa. 



In the Adriatic it is commonly believed that the hake, 

 whiting, and other fish taken by hook 'are better for. table 

 purposes than those caught by trawling and other forms of 

 netting. The line fishing is very considerable, and is regarded as 

 one of the most popular of summer sports. One form of hand 

 line, with two or three hooks, is baited with worms or smelts, 

 and thrown out from shore with or without a rod for gobies, 

 smooth serranus, and similar species. Mackerel, bass, and 

 garfish are taken by a long line weighted with lead at intervals of 

 four or five yards, and hooks attached to a long collar of copper 

 wire and baited with pieces of fish. This method is trailing 

 pure and simple with hand line. Gilt-head are caught with a 

 horsehair line armed with large hooks, and, south of Dalmatia, 

 the same fish is caught by whiffing under easy sail, the line 

 being not less than fifty fathoms and composed of common cord. 

 Another line for miscellaneous fishing is often 250 fathoms long, 

 and carries snooded hooks to the number of two or three 

 hundred, and this is either sunk and buoyed, or floated near 

 the surface. Spears, prongs, tridents, and harpoons are em- 



