﻿FISHES. 
  

  

  273 
  

  

  to 
  be, 
  there 
  would 
  be 
  less 
  to 
  grumble 
  about 
  regarding 
  its 
  

   destructive 
  propensity, 
  for 
  few 
  of 
  our 
  fishes 
  afford 
  a 
  better 
  

   meal 
  when 
  properly 
  cooked 
  — 
  either 
  boiled 
  when 
  fresh 
  and 
  

   served 
  with 
  a 
  sauce 
  made 
  of 
  milk 
  with 
  a 
  little 
  corn-flour, 
  a 
  

   little 
  mustard, 
  and 
  plenty 
  of 
  parsley 
  or 
  onions 
  cut 
  fine 
  ; 
  

   or 
  if 
  smoked 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  way 
  as 
  haddock, 
  and 
  then 
  boiled 
  

   for 
  ten 
  or 
  fifteen 
  minutes, 
  and 
  afterwards 
  fried, 
  it 
  will 
  

   compare 
  favourably 
  with 
  the 
  best 
  of 
  those 
  usually 
  called 
  

   " 
  food 
  fishes." 
  

  

  Genus 
  LiEM 
  ARGUS, 
  Midler 
  and 
  Henle. 
  

   Laemargus 
  borealis, 
  Bonap. 
  Greenland 
  Shark. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  Sharks 
  that 
  attain 
  to 
  large 
  size, 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  

   abundant 
  along 
  the 
  east 
  coast. 
  From 
  1883 
  to 
  March, 
  1893, 
  

   one 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty 
  were 
  brought 
  into 
  Aberdeen. 
  Of 
  the 
  

   above 
  number 
  eighty-nine 
  were 
  females, 
  and 
  these 
  attain 
  a 
  

   length 
  of 
  15-J 
  feet, 
  while 
  the 
  longest 
  male 
  yet 
  observed 
  at 
  

   Aberdeen 
  was 
  only 
  11 
  feet 
  3 
  inches. 
  

  

  Nothing 
  seems 
  to 
  come 
  amiss 
  in 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  food 
  to 
  this 
  

   animal. 
  On 
  one 
  occasion 
  I 
  took 
  from 
  the 
  stomach 
  of 
  one 
  

   three 
  salmon 
  which 
  were 
  each 
  2| 
  feet 
  long, 
  three 
  whitings, 
  

   lot 
  of 
  Buccanum 
  undatum, 
  Fusus 
  antiqus, 
  and 
  Pagurus 
  bern- 
  

   hardus 
  ; 
  from 
  another, 
  twenty 
  -six 
  lumps 
  of 
  whale 
  blubber, 
  

   each 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  a 
  man's 
  head 
  ; 
  while 
  cod, 
  haddock, 
  coal-fish, 
  

   all 
  the 
  flat-fish 
  that 
  occur 
  along 
  the 
  coast, 
  dog-fish 
  and 
  

   porpoise 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  stomachs, 
  besides 
  which, 
  on 
  

   several 
  occasions, 
  lines 
  with 
  many 
  hooks 
  attached 
  have 
  also 
  

   been 
  got. 
  Some 
  of 
  these 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  swallowed 
  by 
  the 
  

   fish 
  along 
  other 
  shores 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  Britain, 
  because 
  attached 
  

   to 
  the 
  lines, 
  as 
  floats, 
  were 
  many 
  pieces 
  of 
  wood 
  of 
  peculiar 
  

   form, 
  a 
  method 
  not 
  pursued 
  by 
  fishermen 
  on 
  Scottish 
  shores 
  

   in 
  regard 
  to 
  floating 
  their 
  lines. 
  

  

  Genus 
  ECHINORHINUS, 
  Blainville. 
  

  

  Echinorhinus 
  spinosus, 
  Blainville. 
  Spinous 
  Shark. 
  

  

  Not 
  common. 
  Edward 
  records 
  having 
  seen 
  one 
  near 
  

   Gamrie 
  Head 
  on 
  31st 
  December, 
  1850. 
  Another 
  is 
  reported 
  

   by 
  Smith 
  in 
  the 
  Zoologist, 
  p. 
  3057, 
  as 
  having 
  been 
  cast 
  ashore 
  

  

  