The Fisheries Exhibition Literature, Volume 21883 - Fisheries |
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anadromous anal fin angler angling animal appear artificial ascend bait Ballisodare bamboo become boats body bony bottom breeding brown trout Burmah capture carp carried catch caught Cetacea coarse fish coast colour condition cured curer dace deposited dorsal fin Eels eggs Elasmobranchii employed exist feet fisheries fishermen fixed engines float forms fresh water fresh-water gills grayling hatching head hooks Howietoun inches India industry Ireland Irish jaws labour lakes large number less living Madras means meshes milt mouth natural nets observed obtained organs pass pectoral fins perch pike pilchard placed plate pollutions ponds pounds present purpose roach roach fishing salmon fisheries salmon river salmonidæ salt Scotland season seen side spawning species sport streams supply surface tail taken teeth Teleostei Thames trays trough trout upper ventral vessels weirs WILLIAM CLOWES Yarmouth young fish
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Page 13 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Page 15 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 21 - ... Nature study books with which the market is now so well provided. In the majority of cases such works are of no importance In a library administered for the use of serious students of science and merely take up valuable room. They are in place in the more popular collections of the public library. The best that can be said of most of them is that they are no more perversions of science than are historical novels of past events and society romances of existing conditions. It will be evident that...
Page 48 - Ibs. only were prepared. there are many Hindus who reject it, as well as the rural population of some districts. But of those residing in towns, and in hilly ranges, it appears that, if the Brahmans are excepted, the consumption of fish is only limited by the paucity of the supply and the cost of the article. In Sind, fish is generally eaten by the population of the province, whether Mussalman or Hindu, unless a Brahman.
Page 8 - ... artificial propagation of the fish. Either, alone, in some circumstances, will answer a very good purpose. The two combined constitute an alliance which places at our command the means of recovering our lost ground to a degree which, but for the experience of the last ten years, would hardly be credible.
Page 2 - Edric was casting his nets from the shore of the island into the Thames. On the other side of the river, where Lambeth now stands, a bright light attracted his notice. He crossed, and found a venerable personage, in foreign attire, calling for some one to ferry him over the dark stream. Edric consented. The stranger landed, and proceeded at once to the church. On his way he evoked with his staff the two springs of the island. The air suddenly became bright with a celestial splendour. The building...
Page 3 - I am Peter, keeper of the keys of heaven. When Mellitus arrives to-morrow, tell him what you have seen ; and show him the token that I, St. Peter, have consecrated my own Church of St. Peter, Westminster, and have anticipated the Bishop of London. For yourself, go out into the river : you will catch a plentiful supply of fish, whereof the larger part shall be salmon. This I have granted on two conditions — first, that you never fish again on Sundays ; secondly, that you pay a tithe of them to the...
Page 3 - A host of angels, descending and reascending, with sweet odours and flaming candles, assisted, and the church was dedicated with the usual solemnities. The fisherman remained in his boat, so awestruck by the sight, that when the mysterious visitant returned and asked for food, he was obliged to reply that he had caught not a single fish. Then the stranger revealed his name : ' I am Peter, keeper of the keys of Heaven. When Mellitus arrives to-morrow, tell him what you have seen ; and show him the...
Page 29 - That begins by reciting that the common passage of boats and ships in the great rivers...
Page 103 - It may be worthy of notice here, that the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets, in a short time became a solid mass of ice, and by a blow or two of the hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation.