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THE BOOK OF FISHES 
SWORDFISH TAKEN IN CAPE BRETON WATERS 
It has long been the opinion of ichthyologists that the Swordfish’s spawning ground is in the Mediter¬ 
ranean Sea. The fact that small ones are constantly caught in the Mediterranean, but that only larger 
ones are taken in American waters, seemed to justify the conclusion that they did not spawn on this side 
of the Atlantic. But a small Swordfish weighing less than eight pounds has been taken near Boston and a 
female containing spawn landed at New Bedford. This evidence serves to reopen the question. 
