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APPENDIX 



The English Channel, Baltic and Mediterranean all afford their own 

 characteristic sport, in great measure dependent on the nature of the fish, 

 which is in turn determined by the character of the sea bed, the saltness of the 

 water, the number of considerable rivers having their estuaries in the neighbour- 

 hood, and a variety of other physical conditions. The migrations of fishes, which 

 are now regarded as less considerable than naturalists formerly thought them, 



A CORNISH HARBOUR 



do not as a rule extend beyond the confines of a sea, consisting, for the 

 most part, of movements to and fro along the coast, or from the shallow 

 to the deeper water and back again. Occasionally, however, these movements 

 are more extended, as in the case of the sardines having followed their 

 scattered larval food down the entire western seaboard of Europe and past 

 the islands that lie off the Barbary coast. This concerns the angler only 

 in so far as the pilchards — which are identical with the sardine of commerce — 

 are in their turn followed by bass and other sporting fish of large size, being, 

 in fact, excellent bait for most of the large fish found in the Cornish waters 



