28 SEA FISHERIES 



the regional designations, I have chosen those best known. 

 They are arranged everywhere in the same order, from 

 the North Sea to the Atlantic and from the Atlantic to the 

 Mediterranean. The importance of knowing the season 

 of spawning is obvious, since it usually corresponds with 

 the season of migration. 



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Thanks to this table, we can give the precise geogra- 

 phical distribution of the French species. First we will 

 place those which are peculiar to one of the four seas 

 which wash the coasts of France. We will divide the 

 Atlantic into two portions ; one lying between the mouth 

 of the Channel and the estuary of the Loire ; the other 

 bathing the coast of Vendee and Charente and southwards 

 to the Spanish frontier. Then follow the names of the 

 species common to several seas. 



Species chiefly peculiar to the 



North Sea. i. Halibut. 



North Atlantic. 2. Mary-sole. 



South Atlantic, 5. Shark (No. 6), Scicena ombrina, dwarf sole, 

 Mary-sole, Sole-seteau. 



Mediterranean. 27. Bordered ray ; Uranoscopus ; rascasse ; 

 Serranus scriba ; Serran hepatus ; Thynnus pelamys (bonito, dolphin) ; 

 Spanish mackerel, bream (Nos. 47, 48, 49, 51), green wrass, peacock 

 wrass, peacock girella, Chromis castanea, sand-eel (No. 69), atherines 

 (Riquet's and No. 72), golden mullet (Mugil auratus), Mugil chelo, 

 Klein's sole, eyed sole, myroconger, muraena, Murcena unicolor t 

 Murcena sorciere, poutina. 



Species common to several seas 



Channel, North Sea. 4. Smelt, cod, ling, fluke. 



Channel, North Atlantic. 4. Wrass (L. bergylta), salmon, lesser 

 sand-eel, greater sand-eel. 



North Sea, Atlantic. i. Smear-dab. 



North Sea, Channel, North Atlantic. 10. Salmon-trout, haddock, 

 pout, whiting, pollack, coalfish, dab, flounder, herring, sprat. 



