ANCHOVY. 141 



Garum, was in great estimation. Its eastern range is ex- 

 tended into the Black Sea. 



The fishing for them is carried on during the night, and 

 lights are used with the nets. 



The Anchovy is common on the coasts of Portugal, Spain, 

 and France ; it occurs, I have no doubt, at the Channel 

 Islands, and has been taken on the Hampshire coast, and in 

 the Bristol Channel. In the Appendix to Willughby's 

 work, it is mentioned as having been taken on the coast of 

 Wales ; Pennant obtained it near his own residence at 

 Downing in Flintshire ; and Mr. Bicheno has very recently 

 obtained several on the coast of Glamorganshire. It is said 

 to be sold frequently in Liverpool market, and is reported 

 to be at this time an inhabitant of the piece of water below 

 Black wall called Dagenham Breach. 



Its range to the north is extensive, as it is occasionally 

 taken in the Baltic and on the coast of Norway ; but is 

 not included by Linneeus in his Fauna Suecica. 



The Anchovy appears to attain a much larger size than 

 has usually been accorded to it : from four to five inches in 

 length is the more ordinary size ; but Mr. Couch says, " I 

 have seen it in the Cornish seas of the length of seven inches 

 and a half; and I have met with specimens from autumn, 

 through the winter, to the middle of March : it is therefore 

 probable that a fishery might be established with good pro- 

 spect of success ; for though the nets employed for other fish 

 can take but few of them, the numbers found in the sto- 

 machs of the Whiting and other ravenous fishes show that 

 they are in considerable abundance. 1 ' 



The Anchovy is immediately recognised among the spe- 

 cies of the family to which it belongs, by its sharp-pointed 

 head, with the upper jaw considerably the longest. The 

 length of the head compared with the length of the body 



