CHAPTER III 



OF THE BIRDS AND LARGER FISHES 



TTERRINGS were 

 once in great 

 numbers on the 

 coast, and were so 

 much larger and 

 fatter than our Eng- 

 lish herring, that at 

 times knaves have 

 found it worth while 

 to imitate the "La- 

 brador Herring " 

 brand. Of late years 

 they have failed al- 

 most entirely to 

 visit the coast, and 

 fishery stations have 

 had to be abandoned 

 where once the sea 



was " dry with fat herring." As many as 4,000 

 barrels have been surrounded with the seine at one 

 shoot of the net. The only other common fish is 

 the sculpin, pig-fish, or grubby. He is a voracious 



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Iceberg in August off Tub Harbour 



