Class IV. HAKE COD FISH. 



2.57 



* # * With two dorsal fins. 



LeMerluz. Belon, 115. 



Asellus, ovo$, ovioTiOg. Rondel. 

 272. 



Merlucius. Gesner pise. 84. 



Asellus primus sive Merlucius. 

 Wil. Ichth. 174. 



The Hake. Raii syn. pise. 56. 



Gadus dorso dipterygio, max- 

 illa inferiore longiore. Ar- 

 ted. synon. 36. 



-Gadus Merlucius. Lin. syst. 

 439. Gm. Lin. Il6g. 



Faun. Suec. No. 314. 

 Faun. Groenl. 148. 

 Gronov. Zooph. No. 315. 

 Le Merlin. Duhamel Tr. des 



Pesches. ii. 141. tab. 24. 

 La Merluche. Block ichth. v. 



78. tab. 164. 

 Le Gade Merlus. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons. ii, 



446. 



11. Hake, 



A FISH that is found in vast abundance on 

 many of our coasts, and of those of Ireland. 

 There was formerly a vast stationary fishery of 

 Hake on the Nymph Bank off the coast of Water- 

 ford, immense quantities appearing there twice 

 a year ; the first shoal coming in June, during 

 the Mackrel season, the other in September, at 

 the beginning of the Herring season, probably 

 in pursuit of those fish : it was no unusual thing 

 for six men with hooks and lines to take a thou- 

 sand Hake in one night, besides a considerable 

 quantity of other fish. These were salted and 

 sent to Spain, particularly to Bilboa., # We are 



* Smith's Hist. Wat erf or d, 26l. 

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