THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. IOI 
the kind of fish on which different fish feed. Some are select, 
like the striped bass; others omniverous, like the bluefish; and 
all are enormous feeders. Eight alewives of three-quarters of a 
pound each, were found in‘a sixty-six pound striped bass! Forty 
mullets were found in a thirty-pounder! I have seen in the fjords 
above the Arctic Circle, in the swift tide-currents, endless flocks 
of birds, ready to devour the fish that congregate to destroy 
other fish. Sharks, porpoises, and other fish of prey know when 
and where to find the weak “ Innocents Abroad.” 
SPORTIVE ELEMENT. 
No Bergh has yet appeared to prohibit the fish in their gam- 
bols after other fish, or to enjoin men from gamboling after them. 
Indeed, a part of the sport of fishing consists in decoying the 
wriggling beauties upon the hook. In the North Sea they dou- 
ble the sport, for they have hook so shaped as to catch a small 
fish, whose wriggling and struggling attracts the larger fish. It 
is said that the first admirer of our American beauty, the tradi- 
tionary husband of the original Mrs. John Smith—nee Pocahon- 
tas—who settled the earliest English colony on this continent, 
often fished in the waters of this District; and that he assisted 
greatly to develop the fishing industry of the rivers round 
about Jamestown. He fished along our sea-shore as far up as 
Maine, and gave to his occupation its useful and delightful har- 
mony when he said: 
And is it not pretty sport,to hale up two pence, six pence, and 
twelve pence as fast as you can hale and veare a line? 
The sportive element which comes out of the same game of 
chance, with which statesmen of former days pursued horse- 
racing or poker, gives to its uncertainty and luckiness to the 
toiler of the sea the charm with which no other laborious pur- 
suit attracts. Is it not a sort of gratification to watch the unwary 
fish, to entrap and entice him, not merely by studying his habits 
and migrations, the weather influences, and the nature of the 
ground, but by copying the qualities of the fish, its courage, 
vigor, velocity, and cunning? Thus the sportsman may render 
