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B. Marine Fishing. 
It will already have been understood by our readers that fishing includes 
not only the capture of fishes, but of aquatic animals in general. Under 
this head, therefore, may be given the catching of whales, crabs, oysters, 
lobsters, &c., in addition to that of herring, cod, tunny, mackerel, &c. We 
have, however, presented the general features of the whale-fishing under 
the head of Mammattia, and those of the fishes above-mentioned under 
Fisues, and shall, therefore, conclude this part of our subject by a brief 
reference to the fleur es on plates 34 and 35. 
Pl. 35, fig. 1, represents a party of fishermen in the act of capturing 
tunnies, ieeaetas to the method practised in the Mediterranean. The 
entire apparatus is shown in pl. 34, jig. 9, consisting of huge nets, arranged, 
in a succession of chambers, in one of which the scene first mentioned is 
supposed to be taking place. PU. 35, fig. 2, shows a scene of the whale- 
fishery ; a party of men about to harpoon a whale, with the ships in the 
distance, from one of which is streaming the smoke evolved in trying out 
the blubber. Two dead whales, previously captured, form part of the 
picture. In pl. 35, jig. 3, we see fishermen catching herrings by means of 
an enormous net. The eee thus taken amounts sometimes to 120,000 
or 140,000 at a single haul. 
Pl. 34, jigs. 138 and 14, present incidents in cod-fishing. Orysters are 
taken by means of the ae (pl. 34, fig. 11), and sometimes by a kind of 
dredge (fig. 12). Crabs and lobsters are caught in pots (jig. 10) baited 
with meat. 
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