4 PREFACE 



United States, the Fish Commission steamer "Fish Hawk" 

 was sent to make a complete investigation of the marine Hfe 

 of that island, with a party of well-known scientists on 

 board. The result of their labours, in a large and exhaustive 

 report, was issued in 1900. This volimie contains coloured 

 life-like plates of many of the fish, all of which are also found 

 in ovir waters, and I am deeply indebted to this book for 

 assistance in the nomenclature of the Trinidad Fish. As far 

 as I have been enabled to classify them, there are over one 

 hundred varieties of sea-fish, of which eighty-five may be 

 described as more or less edible, fourteen out of that number 

 deserving to rank as high-class table-fish. I have personally 

 assisted at the capture with hook, harpoon, net, or fish-pot, 

 of every one of the fish indexed, so can guarantee their exist- 

 ence. 



I can but trust in launching this little "brochure" that 

 the reader thereof, when he has digested it, may be a fitting 

 companion for those who go down to the sea in boats " tagged 

 by the lean fin." 



Harry Vincent. 



My most grateful thanks are due to those who have 

 generously given me many of the really imique photographs 

 with which this little work is embellished, namely Messrs. 

 C. S. Rogers, Randolph Rust, Thomas Potter, R. R. Mole, 

 and our Entomologist, F. W. Urich. Also to Mr. Vicente 

 Marryatt, whose neat and elegant draughtsmanship has been 

 of material assistance to me in the production of the chart 



of the Bocas. 



Harry Vincent. 



