62 SEA FISH; 



derable esteem, from the great readiness with which 

 they take salt. 



Haddocks, like herrings, are very erratic in their 

 habits, and no dependence can be placed on their 

 movements : roaming about in vast shoals in pursuit 

 of food, which, when found, is followed from place to 

 place until, fresh supplies being encountered, fresh 

 lines of direction are taken, thus bringing them 

 within the scope of nearly every contrivance, both net 

 and line, used for the destruction of the larger 

 varieties of fish. 



The Hake, 



FAM., Gadidce, 



Is a most ravenous and greedy fish, following the 

 shoals of pilchards when on the coast, frequently 

 getting enclosed with them, when a scene such as 

 would be enacted were a pack of wolves to be shut 

 up in a sheepfold ensues, and the wretched pilchards 

 are swallowed wholesale. At such times the outsides 

 of the nets are watched by numbers of greedy hake, 

 only too anxious for an opportunity to dart among 

 the fish seen through the meshes of the net. Great 

 numbers may be taken at such times by using pilchards 

 for bait, and immense numbers are taken with the 

 hook and line round the coast, where the arrival of the 

 pilchards attracts them in vast quantities. The line 

 for this kind of fishing should be the kind known as 



