they followed them back in the fall. The mackerel 

 increased in size as they got on better feeding-ground. 

 They disappeared for a month or so in June, when 

 they went to the bottom and spawned. He could assure 

 Mr. Cornish that there was not the slightest practical 

 difficulty in working the purse seine. They were from 

 70 to 150 feet in depth, and 1000 to 1300 in length, 

 and were worked by a special boat something like a 

 whale boat, and it was quite easy for a vessel to catch 

 as many fish as could be cured in three or four days. 

 At first they used to give the surplus away or let them 

 go, but now they had invented a kind of storage net, 

 which they hung out over the side of the vessel, and 

 kept the fish alive in it, taking out at intervals as many 

 as they could cure before they spoiled. 



Mr. KENNETH CORNISH asked if Mr. Cornish was in 

 favour . of legislation for the preservation of mackerel ? 

 Referring to what had been said in regard to the pursuit 

 of herrings and mackerel by porpoises, he might say that 

 he witnessed a very remarkable sight at Teignmouth ;n the 

 year 1 860. In walking along the sea wall they saw a great 

 commotion in the sea, a mile out, and watching it, they 

 soon found a shoal of salmon running in, pursued by a 

 shoal of large grampuses, who drove the unfortunate 

 salmon right against the wall. They seized the salmon in 

 their jaws, threw them up, and caught them like a terrier 

 would a rat, and when the salmon turned and went out to 

 sea again, they pursued them. He should like to know if 

 Mr. Cornish thought it possible to catch these cetacea, seals 

 and other animals that preyed on salmon, herrings, and 

 mackerel, by the use of spinning bait on a large scale ? It 

 seemed to him we were thinning down the fish, but not 

 thinning down their natural enemies. It would not be at 

 all difficult to make baits which would exactly represent a 



