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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes -- North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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andEastham, and on the shores of Long Island and New Jersey. On the 19th of August, 1874, I saw 12,000 taken from the long poundon the west shore of Block Island. The line-fishery is probably not less productive than gill-netting. In1875, we were cruising about Marthas Vineyard in the Fish Commissionyacht MoUie. Off Cape Pogue we noticed at least thirty cat-boatsdrailing for Bluefish. These boats were about twenty feet in length,square-sterned and well housed over. Each carried three lines, one at thestern and two at the end of long rods projecting over each quarter. Whenwe anchored at dusk in Edgartown harbor, these boats were coming in,dropping alongside of a New York market boat, which lay at the wharf.The bright lantern under the deck awning, the black forms of the fisher-men, the busy changing of the little sails, the eager voices of bargaining,gave an impression of brisk trade. The same scene is repeated day afterday, from July to October, in scores of New England seaport towns.
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THE MACKEREL. THE MACKEREL AND ITS ALLIES. A reef of level rock runs out to sea.And you may lie on it and look sheer downJust where the Grace of Sunderland was lost.And see the elastic banners of the dulseRock softly, and the orange star-fish creepAcross the laver, and the Mackerel shootOver and under it, like silver boatsTurning at will, and plying under water. Jean Lngelow, Brothers and a Sermon. ^THE common Mackerel, Scomber scoiiibrus, is an inhabitant of theNorth Atlantic Ocean. On our coast its southern limit is in theneighborhood of Cape Hatteras in early spring. The fishing schooners ofNew England find schools of them in this region at some distance fromthe shore, but there is no record of their having been taken in any num-bers in shoal water south of Long Island. A. W. Simpson states that thespecies has been observed in the sounds about Cape Hatteras in August,September and October. R. E. Earll finds evidence that stragglersoccasionally enter the Chesapeake. Along the coasts

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