Fishy,

Manawatu Herald, 23 October 1897, Page 2

Fishy,

The enormous number of ova prow duced by most species of fish, make it difficult to believe that any amount of fishing can make the slightest appreciable difference in the available supply" and in Great Britain and some European countries all acts restricting the mode of fishing in the open sea have been repealed.

Id the Ninth Annual Eeport of the Fishery Board of Scotland the number of ova taken from a single individual of the following species of fish, are given : - herring 22,000 to 47,000 ; whiting 109,000 to 181,000 ; haddock, 156.000 to 806.000 ; brill 825,000; halibut 1.490,000 to 4,451,---000; cod 2.963,000 to 6,652.000; turbot 5.612.000 to 10,114,000; ling 12,800.000 to 28,860,000. • One large fish of the last-named species, 93 inches long, weighing 86 lbs had a roe weighing 14 Iba and estimated to contain 60,000,000 ova.

In Scotland the number of boats and men engaged in the fisheries of the North Sea and its neighbour* hood were in 1891, 15,000 boats of a tonnage of 125,000 tons, valued at £777.000, together with nets valued at £718,000. and lines at £125,000. There were 61 steam trawlers of 5,« 929 tons, valued at £208,000. Over 49,000 men and boys were employed in the boats, besides 50,000 who found occupation on shore.

Mr G. M. Thomson, F.L.8., says in Auckland the grey mullet means the kanae, and in Dunedin it means the Bea-mullet, a totally different fish.

The blue-cod and the rock-cod apply to the one fish (Percit colias). The Picton herring ia affirmed by some to be the sea mullet, while the fish so abundant round the southern coasts also called herring is the sari dine or pilchard (Clupea sagax). Begarding the proposed introduction of English fish into colonial waters, we learn that in the majority of food-fishes, the eggs float at the surface of the water and remain floating up to the time of hatching. The cod spawns in Scottish waters from end of January to the end of May, but chiefly in March. Herrings spawn chiefly in March to May, bat tbe process goes on to some extent in nearly every month of the year. The ova of this fish ifl deposited in gravel covered areas. The tuvb-t spawns from April to the end of July, but chiefly in June. The eggs are slightly smaller than tha cod, and when deposited they float singly on the surface ot the sea, but thpy seem always to sink some day3 before hatching takes place. They appear to remain near the surface till tbe adult form has been assumed, and then descend to the bottom to spsnd tbe first winter of their iifV, probably in comparatively shallow water, at no great distance from land, for in tbe first warm weather of spring and early summer young tuibot are found along tbe sandy beaches of the British Isles.

In New Zealand observations show

that the majority of our species of fish spawn in the late spring and the summer months.

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These pills are not a purgative, and they contain nothing that could id jure the most delicate.