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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



'''• The Salmon likewise is a Sea-fish, but as the Basse, comes into Elvers 

 to spawn. The Salmon the first year is a Salmon-smolt ; The second a 

 Mort; The third a Spraid; The fourth a Soar ; The fifth a Sorrel; Tiie 

 sixth a forlcet-tail; and the seventh year a Salmon. There are another 

 sort of Salmon frequent in those parts, called White Salmons.''^ 



" Capeling is a small fish like smelt." — (P. 274.) 



" The Frost-fish is little bigger than a Gudgeon, and are taken in 

 fresh brooks; when the waters are frozen they make a hole in the Ice, 

 about halt' a yard or yard wide, to which the fish repair in great num- 

 bers, where, with small nets bound to a hoop about the bigness of a 

 firkin-hoop, with a staff fastened to it, they take them out of the hole. 

 I have not done with the fish yet, being willing to let you know all of 

 them that are to be seen and catched in the Sea & fresh waters of Nein 

 England ; and because I will not tire your patience overmuch, having 

 no occasion to enlarge my discourse, I shall only name them and so con- 

 clude." 



Grand pisse, 

 Hake, 



"Aleport, 



Albiocre, 



Barracha, 



Barracoutha, 



Blew-fish, 



Bull-head, 



Bur fish. 



Cat-fish, 



Cony-fish, 



Cusk, 



Clam, 



Eock-Cod, 



Sea-Cod, 



Haddock, 



Horse- foot, 



Hallibut, 



Hen-fish, 



Lampre, 



Li m pin, 



Lumpe, 



Maid, 



Monk-fish, 



Sea Mullet, 



Nun-fish, 



Divers kinds of Crabs, Perch, 



Sea-cucumber, 



Cunner, 



Sea-Darts or Javelins, 



Flail-fish, 



Plounder or Flowke, 



Flying-fish, 



several kinds, 

 Sea-Flea, 



Polluck, 

 Periwincle, 

 Pike, ' 

 Pilot-fish, 

 Plaice, 

 Porpisse, 

 Prawn e. 

 Purple-fish, 



Porgee, 



Eemora, 



Sea-Eavens, 



Sail-fish, 



Scallop, 



Scate, 



Stingray, 



Sculpin, 



Shadd, 



Spurlin, 



Sheath-fish, 



Smelt, 



Shrimps, 



Sprates, 



Star-fish, 



Sword-fish, 



Thornback, 



Turbet, 



The Ylatife or Saw-fish, 



Sea-Vrchin, 



Sea-Ynicorn." 



—(Pp. 276, 277.) 



J^eio EnglanWs rarities discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and 

 Flants of that country, etc. By John Josselyn, Gent. 1G72. 



[Reprinted in Arcbaiologia Americana, vol. IV., 18G0.] 



" The w^obble, an ill-shaped bird ; having no long feathers in their 

 ])inions, which is the reason they cannot fiy ; not much unlike the peu- 

 gwin. They are in the spring very fat, or rather oyly ; but pulPd and 

 garbidg'd, and laid to the fire to roast, they yield not one drop.''*— (P. 

 140.) 



'*The Sturgeon; of whose sounds is made isinglass, — a kind of glew 

 much used in physick. This fish is here in great plenty, and in some 

 rivers so numerous that it is hazardous for canoes and the like small 

 vessels to pass to and again -, as in l^echipscut Eiver to the eastward." — 

 (P. 104.) 



" The scarlet muscle. At Paschataway, (a plantation about fifty 



This refers to the Great Auk, .Ilea impenuh, now extinct. — S. F. B. 



