THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



many that are represented in California. Mr. John E. Arnold 

 gives in the folloTving an inkling of the possibilities. He says : 



' There is some good sport to be had, however, in the comparativfely 

 shallow iater-island waters. A party of five on a recent excursion, lasting 

 about a week, captured forty-six pompanoes, with a total weight of four 

 hundred and seventy-two pounds, fifty-seven barracudas, with a total 

 weight of four hundred and thirty pounds, fifty-six groupers, with a 

 total weight of two hundred and twenty-nine pounds, ten Spanish 

 mackerel, with a total weight of one hundred and twenty-five pounds> 

 and seven red snappers, with a total weight of forty-one pounds, besides 

 others, bringing the gross weight up to sixteen hundred and sixty-four 

 pounds, and the total species to twenty-two. The best fishing groimds 

 were found in Malampaya Sound off the CuMon (north of Palawan and 

 Sztanki), south of Mindanao.' 



iN'ot far from here, about forty miles north of Mindanao, is 

 one of the great mysterious deeps of the sea, where a region of 

 eternal night prevails, almost incomprehensible pressure and a 

 temperature just above freezing. This hole is six miles and four 

 hundred and six feet in depth ; so from the actual base of the 

 vast mountain, represented by the Philippines, one would climb 

 upward six miles, then a mile more to the peaks of some of the 

 Philippine moimtains. The ocean is nearly six miles deep near 

 Guam. This is of no particular interest to anglers except that 

 it is theoretically possible to go a-fishing with a line six miles 

 long, and it is known that near some of these great deeps the 

 fishes coidd find the lure by their phosphorescent lights. 



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