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from Killisnoo in Alaska to Otaru in Japan, and to Strielok in 
Siberia. Goode estimates the herring product of the North 
Atlantic at 1,500,000,000 pounds annually. In 1881 Professor 
Huxley used these words: 
Fig. 100.—Great Parrot-fish, or Guacamaia, Pseudoscarus guacamaia 
Bloch & Schneider. Florida. 
“It is said that 2,500,000,000 or thereabout of herrings 
are every year taken out of the North Sea and the Atlantic. 
Suppose we assume the number to be 2,000,000,000 so as to be 
quite safe. It is a large number undoubtedly, but what does 
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Fic, 101.—Striped Mullet, Mugil cephalus (L.). Wood’s Hole, Mass. 
it come to? Not more than that of the herrings which may be 
contained in one shoal, if it covers half a dozen square miles, 
and shoals of much larger size are on record. It is safe to say 
that scattered through the North Sea and the Atlantic, at one 
and the same time, there must be scores of shoals, any one of 
