plate lix. 
The 
beca productive season for the Haddock fisheries, 
IHddock may be taken in great abundance 
fpj. > IS a so common at most other seasons, on our coasts, 
constantl ^ ^ riamed among the small number of fishes, that ij 
markets ^ tbroughout the year, to the London 
"Phc Haddocks • r II 
*^omber * arrival in Da- 
that wh' ] faring directed them to seek a milder region than 
“r^ler to'^d summer, as the winter approaches, in 
L;males a ^ ®P^rvn. The old fisliermen affirm, that the 
®ggs. areT^^^ 
hnmediat same places by shoals of the males, who 
y pioceed to fecundate the eggs deposited by the former. 
^'he i 
Ihe Yorkshirt q II“dtlocks, Mr. Pennant tells us, “ comes periodically on 
December, and lemarkable that they appeared in 17C6, on the 10th of 
®^ore, near tht' y l^e same day, in 1767 : these shoals extended from the 
Castle, and length from Flamborough head, to Tinmouth 
^ers, by the f n'^- farther northwards. An idea may be given of their num- 
borough harbo ^ r'shemien, within the distance of a mile from Scar- 
each time about '^’’®“*'^y ^°»<led their coUe, or boat, with them twice a day, taking 
'''fee miles from y *^*'*^^ down their lines beyond the distance of 
exactly these fill eaught nothing but dog fish, which sliows how 
i “ese fish keep their limits.” 
“ The best Haddocks were sold frn -i 
poet had the smaller to a shilling per score, and th» 
penny, and sometimes a halfpenny per score.” 
“ *"ge Haddocks quit the .» e 
plenty of small *^oast as they go out of season, and leave behind great 
• * ^^es, Jt js Said 1 
*® the summer.” ’ Ilaiiihurgh, and Jutland, 
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