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GADIK^. 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGIL 



gauidm. 



THE POLLACK. 



WHITING POLLACK. LYTHE, Scotlmid. 



Merlangus pollachius, 



Gadus 



CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 333. 

 Pollack, Flem. Brit. An. p. 195, sp. 92. 

 Whiting Pollack, Willughby, p. 167. 

 LiNN«us. Block, pt. ii. pi. 68. 

 Pollack, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 254. 

 Whiting Pollack, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 7. 



The Pollack is mucli less abundant on some parts of 

 the coast than the Coalfish ; but, like that species, is an in- 

 habitant of the seas all round our shores. Mr. Low, in his 

 " Natural History of the Orkneys," says, " They are fre- 

 quently caught close in with the shore, almost among the 

 sea-ware, and in deep holes among the rocks. They seem 

 to be a very frolicsome fish ; and I have been several times 

 fishing for them when they would keep a constant plashing 

 in the water. They bite keenly, scarce allowing the hook 

 to be in the water before one or other jumps at it. They 

 are better eating than the Coalfish ; but I do not know 

 whether they are ever dried or preserved otherwise, as the 

 quantity caught is scarce worth curing.'" Hand-line fishing 

 for Pollacks is called whiffing. 



