SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



It is a strange fact that although these 

 fish are found in great numbers in the warm 

 waters of the Mediterranean, they are seldom 

 seen along our Atlantic coast south of Cape 

 Cod. They have been reported off the coast 

 of New Jersey and in the waters between 

 Block Island and Montauk Point. The 

 horse-mackerel is still found between Cape 

 Cod and Labrador, and at one time is said 

 to have been often met with. The schools 

 of herring, mackerel, and menhaden have 

 either disappeared, or remain farther off- 

 shore than in former years, and the horse- 

 mackerel, being a good feeder, must follow 

 the smaller fish. 



I had read that the tuna were very plenti- 

 ful along the western coast of Newfound- 

 land. I cruised from Port-aux-Basques to 

 the beautiful Humber Sound, Bay of Islands, 

 and back, in the summer of 1911, without 

 seeing a single fish, nor could I obtain any 

 information concerning them. I have found 

 the tuna on two visits to St. Ann's Bay, Cape 

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