116 FISH. 



The coalfish is very like the whiting pollack, being 

 generally considered the same fish by fishermen. 

 Pine sport with these fish can be obtained just 

 under the Start Lighthouse in the current between 

 the rocks, where in a few hours of a morning, just 

 about daylight, some hundredweights can be taken, 

 generally the very finest fish from so rapid a tide- 

 way. Numbers are taken round the Isle of Wight 

 in the autumn, and are known by the name of 

 " whiting cole." 



THE HAKE. 



Merlucius vulgaris, Cuvier. 

 Gadus, Linnaeus. 



This most valuable and excellent fish is found 

 in all the northern seas of Europe and in the Me- 

 diterranean. With us it seems to abound chiefly 

 on the Devonshire and Cornwall coasts, but is not 

 so plentiful on the Scotch seaboard. In Ireland, 

 however, especially the south-west, they are abun- 

 dant, and the Bay of Kenmare was anciently 



