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Fishes as Food for Man 



fi-.nn Killisnnr) in Alaska to Otaru in Japan, and to Strielok ni 

 Sil.eria. Goode estimates the herring product of the North 

 Atlantic at 1,500,000,000 pounds annually, 

 Huxley used these words: 



In 1 88 1 Professor 



Fig. 21.5. — Great Parrot-fisli, iir 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 3,000,000,000 so as to be 

 quite safe. It is a large number undoubtedly, but what does 



Fii;. 21lj. — Striped Mullet, M\ujil cephalus (Ij.). 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 



