FISHES OF OUR NORTH ATLANTIC SEABOARD 
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Photograph from Ewing Galloway 
DRYING FISH AT DIGBY, NOVA SCOTIA 
When fish is dried in the open air, it sometimes must be protected from sunburn by canvas awnings, 
and from rain at night by coops. Although fish is also dried in some factories in large steam-heated shelf 
driers, this method tends to be too rapid, so that the fish is dried only on the surface, instead of uniformly 
throughout. 
complete check on the movement of the- 
fishes of the seas is a problem still await¬ 
ing solution. The exact winter home 
of the common Mackerel is unknown, 
though a few have been caught with Cod 
lines in deep water off Grand Manan, and 
others have been taken from the stom¬ 
achs of Cod on Georges and La Have 
Banks, as well as off the coast of New 
Jersey. 
For a long time it was supposed that 
the Hickory Shad spawned in Chesa¬ 
peake Bay, but investigations in that re¬ 
gion from 1912 to 1922 failed to reveal 
a single member of the species under six 
inches long present in those waters. Its 
spawning grounds have not been located. 
TAGS TO TELL THEIR STORIES 
Likewise, the spawning grounds of the 
Red Tunny have never been discovered. 
This fish has successfully eluded every 
effort to trace its tracks through the deep 
seas. 
So, also, it is with the Squeteague, or 
Weakfish. Appearing in Chesapeake and 
Delaware Bay waters in April, and in 
Buzzards Bay in May, they stay until 
October, but where they go then is still 
a secret of their own. 
The migratory movements of Herring 
are so complex that, although ichthyolo¬ 
gists have been trying to fathom the mys¬ 
tery for many years, a complete solution 
has not yet been found. 
During a recent summer the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries decided to 
make a careful study of the migrations 
of the Cod, the Pollock, and the Haddock. 
It has been tagging 10,000 of these 
fish—about 75 per cent Cod, 20 per cent 
Pollock, and 5 per cent Haddock—and 
turning them loose, in the hope that the 
fishermen of the waters they inhabit 
will return the tags of those caught, with 
information about the locality in which 
they were taken, a record of the date, and 
of their size. 
For each tag returned, the fisherman 
receives 25 cents and the thanks of the 
Bureau of Fisheries. 
In the tagging operations the fish are 
