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CHAPTER VI. 



ALTESE I CHTHYOLOGY. 



Books of Reference. Methods of Fishing. Finny Resi- 

 dents and Visitors. Fishery Regulations. 



The following remarks are for the most part 

 translated and abridged from the admirable "Ten- 

 tamen Ichthyologise Melitensis" of Dr. Gulia, who 

 has most kindly given me every possible assistance. 

 Carsten Niebuhr a Danish naturalist was the first 

 to publish a list of Maltese fishes in 1775, compiled 

 by Giorgio Locano, which described some 116 species^ 

 and in 1838 Sig. Gaetano Trapani compiled a cata- 

 logue in which he enumerated 157 different species. 

 Dr. Gulia in 1861 made mention of 186 species, 

 belonging to 108 genera, and 47 natural families. 

 The markets should be visited in the early morning, 

 and at the fishing port of Migiarro in Gozo many 

 curious specimens may be met with. Fish are 

 fairly abundant and cheap. Their colours are more 

 gorgeous, but their flavour is inferior to those 

 caught in more northern latitudes. The hand line 

 lenza, and the wicker pots naose, the large seine 



