FISH AND FISHERMEN 



ings with steam collectors. Under hatches is an immense 

 tank filled with water, and the fish, having been carefully 

 made to disgorge the hook, are put into it ; the tank will 

 hold a week's catch and, at the end of that time, the boat 

 puts back to shore, and the fish are killed by a slight blow 

 on the head when they are handed out to the buyers. 



Beside those already mentioned or yet to be discussed 

 in other chapters, the Americans have many fish which 

 are unknown in our own waters ; in most cases their nances 

 are descriptive, e.g. the horse-eyed jack, pork-fish, hog-fish, 

 goat-fish, moon-fish, etc. Another individual that almost 

 calls for separate mention is the menhaden, more com- 

 monly known as the " porgy," once in great favour at the 

 tables of the poorer classes in the States. This fishery is 

 now spoken of as a lost art, though menhaden make 

 excellent bait for cod, and have, in time past, been so 

 plentiful as to be netted for field-manure. 



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