120 FISH. 



THE TORSK, OR TUSK. 



Brosenius vulgaris, Cuvier. 

 Gadus Irosene, Penn. 



This fish is hardly ever taken on our coasts 

 except in the Orkney and Shetland Isles, where 

 they swarm in such vast numbers as to be considered 

 of much importance in the fish trade. They are 

 dried and salted in the same manner as the ling, 

 and it flakes well in the cooking, but is tough 

 when eaten fresh. I will give the following ac- 

 count, abridged from Faber's history, of this fish, 

 it being so little known in England : " A nor- 

 thern fish, scarcely occurring below 60 or above 

 73; not migrating regularly, and therefore rarely 

 seen by icthyologists of the south." Plentiful on 

 the coast of Norway as far as Finmark, of the 

 Faroe Islands, and the west coast of Iceland. 



It must be uncommon in Greenland, as Fabricius 

 only knew it from the report of the natives ; just 

 touches the most northern point of Denmark, at 

 Skagen in Jutland, where it is sometimes taken ; 

 not at all in the south. Approaches the land 



