Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all otherspelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
With a few exceptions French words are not accented.
In Chapter X, St Monance Uppertown and Overtown both used for the samelocation.
THE HARVEST OF THE SEA.
VIEW OF WICK HARBOUR DURING THE HERRING SEASON.
title page
THE
HARVEST OF THE SEA
A CONTRIBUTION TO
THE NATURAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF
THE BRITISH FOOD FISHES
By JAMES G. BERTRAM
Polonius.—Do you know me, my lord?
Hamlet.—Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
Shakespeare.
WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS.
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1865
Printed by R. Clark, Edinburgh.
PREFATORY NOTE.
It is not my intention to inflict upon the reader a formalPreface. It would, however, be ungrateful were I not totake an opportunity of acknowledging the aid and informationkindly afforded by various Members of the FrenchGovernment; also by Professor Coste of the French Institute;M. Coumes of Strasbourg; the Authorities atHuningue; the Intendant of the Jardin d’Acclimatisationof Paris; Mr. Robert Buist; Mr. John Cleghorn; JonathanCouch, Esq. of Polperro; Mr. H. Dempster; Thomas Ashworth,Esq.; Mr. Robert Cowie; Mr. R. P. Scott; EdwardCooke, Esq., R.A., to whose kindness I am indebted forthe characteristic Sketches of “The Angler Fish” and “Jackin his Element.”
So far as I am aware, this is the first work in which anattempt has been made to bring before the public in one viewthe present position and future prospects of the Food Fisheriesof Great Britain. Great pains have been taken to obtain reliableinformation and correct statistics, but in so wide a fieldof labour considerable allowance must be made for errors.
The excellent Fish Groups have been arranged and drawnby Mr. Stewart, the Natural History draughtsman of thiscity; while the Sketches of Fishing Scenes on Lochfyne andelsewhere are by Mr. J. R. Prentice.
Edinburgh, 18th October 1865.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
FISH LIFE AND GROWTH.
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Classification of Fish—Their Form and Colour—Mode and Meansof Life—Curiously-shaped Fish—Senses of Smell and Hearingin Fish—Fish nearly Insensible to Pain—The Fecundity ofFish—Sexual Instinct of Fish—External Impregnation of theOva—Ripening of a Salmon Egg—Birth of a Herring—Proposalfor a Marine Observatory in order to note the Growth ofour Sea Fish—Curious Stor                        
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