SPANISH MACKEEEL. 



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blue-fish boats which then rarely failed of adding 

 one or two Spanish mackerel to their daily catch of 

 the coarser prey, have for the past season averaged 

 not more than one a week. It is not positively 

 known whether their absence is due to some change 

 in the temperature of the ocean or direction of the 

 Gulf Stream, or the destruction of their food by 

 the menhaden fishermen, or their exclusion from 

 the spawning grounds by pound-nets, but their loss 

 is severely felt by the market fisherman in a mone- 

 tary way, and by the pleasure angler in the way of 

 sport. 



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CAMP KLTCHEN. 



