112 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



Dr. Block says bream are one of the most im- 

 portant fish in his country (Prussia); the fisheries 

 for bream are very considerable in the lakes of the 

 kingdom of Prussia. In Sweden the bream weighs 

 from twelve to twenty pounds, they use a bell to 

 drive the fish to their nets. Dr. Block found in 

 a fish of six pounds one hundred and thirty-seven 

 thousand eggs. 



Gesner reports, that in Poland a great number 

 of breams were put into a pond, which, in the 

 following winter was frozen into entire ice, and 

 not one drop of water remaining, nor one of these 

 fish to be found though diligently searched, and 

 yet, in the spring, when the ice was thawed, and 

 the weather warm, they all appeared again. 



The bream have great enemies in the buzzard 

 and other birds of prey, but it often happens 

 when the bream are large and strong, and the 

 buzzard has struck his talons far into the back of 

 the fish, that he finds the weight too heavy for 

 him to carry off, and in his turn is carried below 

 into deep water, and drowned. 



Bream may be carried a long way well covered 

 with snow, or by putting into their mouth bread 

 dipped in alcohol. 



