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salted and dried. Couch III, p. 74, PI. CXL. Day I., p. 290, 

 PI. LXXXII. 



GADUS MINUTUS. 

 POWER OR POOR COD. 



Is the smallest of the whiting or cod tribe, seldom exceeding 6 

 or 7 inches in length. Among a lot of pout one usually takes 5 or 

 6 power, so that by some they were thought to be the male of the 

 pout, but they are now considered a separate fish. Couch III., 

 p. 72, PI. CXXXIX. Day I., p. 288, PI. LXXXI. 



GADUS POLLACHIUS. 



POLLACK. 



This sporting fish is plentiful along the rocky parts of our coast, 

 especially about St. Albans' Head, Lulworth, and Portland, where 

 they harbour among the long oar weed in the latter part of the 

 summer and autumn. They afford great sport with either rod or 

 hand line as they will take a spinning bait, fly, indiarubber band, 

 shrimp, rag worm, or, best of all, a live sand eel. They are very 

 strong, and attain to as much as 10 or 121bs., but the average is 

 from 1 to 31bs. They are not nearly so good to eat as whiting, 

 and soon deteriorate. They are best slightly salted and broiled. 

 Couch III., p. 80, PI. CXLII. Day I., p. 296, PI. LXXXIII. 



GADUS VIRENS. 

 COALFISH, SAITHE, &c. 



The young are called Billet, Cuddies, Podlie, and many other 

 local names. They are not so common on our coast as in the north, 

 where large numbers are taken both in nets and by rods, using a 

 white fly for bait. I myself have only taken two off the Dorset 

 coast, one off St. Albans' Head on a mackerel line and one in 

 Poole Harbour when pout fishing. A few were taken this spring 

 (1896) in Poole Harbour in a tuck net and were sold as pollack. 

 They afford good sport as they take a fly or spinning bait freely, 

 but are of little use for the table, the flesh being soft and 

 woolly. They are sometimes called green pollack, but are easily 



