FISHES. 



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. Crew of a French Boat, angling for Mackerel. 



The Mackerel, both in shape and tints, is the most beautiful of fishes, while, as food, it is highly prizec 

 all over the world. Vast shoals of these fish visit the British coast, and are caught both by nets and lines. The 

 series of nets often exceed a mile in extent, and the number therein taken is incalculable. The fish must 

 be used soon after being drawn from the water, as the flesh is tender and easily tainted by exposure to the 

 air. There are three modes of fishing, with drift-nets, with seives, and with the line. With the line two 

 men will take from five hundred to a thousand fish a day in auspicious weather. The fish bite voraciously 

 and are rapidly caught with a bait cut from its own species, and sometimes even by a piece of scarlet cloth 

 or leather. The seive fishing requires two boats and in many respects resembles pilchard fishing, though 

 on a smaller scale. The drift-net needs no description. The boats employed are generally about thirty 

 feet in the keel ; oak or ash built and copper fastened ; deep waisted and broad beamed ; noted for their 

 durability ; and reckoned as swift and safe a class of boats, as can be found in any British fisheries. The 

 Mackerel fishers are obliged to procure a license in order to prosecute their calling. 



The Charr generally haunts deep cool lakes and are rarely found at the surface till late in autumn. They 

 spawn in November and December, then proceeding up rivers, preferring those with the rocky channel, and 

 seldom, at other times, leave the lake's depths. They are found in the lakes of England, Scotland and the 

 Tyrol. 



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Tunny. 



Charr. 



