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coast by Messrs. Clarke and Koebuck. A specimen was thrown 

 ashore in Budle Bay. — Berwick. Trans., Vol. VI., p. 97. 



The first recorded British specimen of this fish was taken in 

 the Frith of Forth, 1750. "In the year 1769 another specimen 

 was taken at Blyth, near Newcastle, and an account of it was 

 given by Mr. Bobert Harrison of that place." About the same 

 time another was taken in Filey Bay. Near the end of the 

 last century four more specimens were obtained in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Forth. The greatest number of this rare fish 

 have been taken on the N.E. coast of Britain. S. 



Fam. SCOMBRIDiE. Mackerels and Tunnies. 



Scomber scomber (Linn.). Mackerel. 



Scomber vulgaris, Flem. Yarr., Brit. Fish., Vol. 1, p. 137. 

 „ ,, ,, Couch, Brit. Fish., Vol. 2, p. 67, pl.79. 



Off Berwick, Dr. G. Johnston, 1836. Off the Tyne occasion- 

 ally, R. Howse. 



Shoals of Mackerel so rarely visit this coast, that fishing for 

 them is not a regular employment or industry with our fisher- 

 men. But occasionally large shoals do approach the Mouth of 

 the Tyne, and afford an exciting amusement to amateur sea- 

 fishers. On one fine summer's evening, 1860, fishing with a 

 friend, in a foy-boat, off the Mouth of the Tyne, we soon became 

 aware of the presence of a shoal of Mackerel, and so ready were 

 they to be captured that in a short time we had landed in the 

 boat two hundred or more, the only bait used being a small 

 narrow piece of parchment about an inch long. No idea can be 

 given in words of the beauty of this fish when first caught. 



About the same time (1860) a large shoal of Mackerel entered 

 the Tyne with the flowing tide, arid were caught in great 

 abundance, with rod and line, from the shore ; a small piece of 

 white rag being used for a bait. M. 



Thynnus thynnus (Linn.). Tunny.* 



Scomber thynnus, ~L\mi. Donovan, pi. 5. 



,, ,, Gunther. Couch, Br.Fish., Vol.2,p.86,pl.82. 



Off Cullercoats, 1884. Frenchman's Bay in salmon nets. — 

 Mr. Cliff, South Shields, August, 1885. 



