The Housekeeper's Guide to the Fish-market for Each Month of the Year: And an Account of the Fishes and Fisheries of Devon and Cornwall in Respect of Commerce, Economy, Natural History, and Statistics |
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... early , though Midsummer is the more usual period of the early fishery . PEALS are on their passage up the rivers and are now first seasonable ; many are caught in bays and harbours as they linger in the brackish water prior to their ...
... early , though Midsummer is the more usual period of the early fishery . PEALS are on their passage up the rivers and are now first seasonable ; many are caught in bays and harbours as they linger in the brackish water prior to their ...
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... early summer . The THORNBACK is chiefly taken in spring and summer , owing to its habits of migration , but ALL THE RAYS are best as food in the end of autumn , and the early part of winter . Fishing for CHADS ( young Sea Bream ) is a ...
... early summer . The THORNBACK is chiefly taken in spring and summer , owing to its habits of migration , but ALL THE RAYS are best as food in the end of autumn , and the early part of winter . Fishing for CHADS ( young Sea Bream ) is a ...
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... early instances were probably individuals about to pass up the river to fresh water . Some , I believe , are also natives of the fresh rivers , -born of parents which have not descended to the marine spawning beds . There are three ...
... early instances were probably individuals about to pass up the river to fresh water . Some , I believe , are also natives of the fresh rivers , -born of parents which have not descended to the marine spawning beds . There are three ...
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... earliest com- mencement of the general fishery . HAKES are now in great abundance prior to retiring to deep water to spawn ; the females are found heavy with roe . It is from these catches in Decemher that a deal of the winter salted ...
... earliest com- mencement of the general fishery . HAKES are now in great abundance prior to retiring to deep water to spawn ; the females are found heavy with roe . It is from these catches in Decemher that a deal of the winter salted ...
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... number of ova ; these perchance may all come to life , but at an early stage of existence great numbers of them are the appointed diet of others . although a large number of the poor are now main- E 2 OF THE FISHERIES . 51.
... number of ova ; these perchance may all come to life , but at an early stage of existence great numbers of them are the appointed diet of others . although a large number of the poor are now main- E 2 OF THE FISHERIES . 51.
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Abundant Anchovy April ascend Atherine Smelt autumn bait Basse best as food Blenny Brill Brixham capture Cawsand coach coast Common Conger Cornish Cornwall Couch Counties Dabb Dabs December Devon Devon and Cornwall Dory Eels estuaries favour February fish fishermen Flat-fishes Flounder Fowey fresh water Haddock Hakes hand lines harbours Hearder Holibut Homelyn Ray Hoo Meavy inches long January July Agt Labrus Launce Mackarel March Mary-sole Meavy Mevagissey migration month Mount's Bay mouth Mullets November numbers Pilchard fishery Pipe-fish Piper Plaice Plym Plymouth Market Pollack Port of Plymouth Pouting profit Raia Red Gurnard rivers Salmon Salmon Peal salt Scad Sea Bream season seins Sharp-nosed Ray shoals shores Skate Skulpin Slapton Ley Sole spawn species spots Sprat spring Stickleback summer Surmullet taken Tamar Thornback Trawlers tribe Trigla Trout Turbot Twaite Shad uncommon Whiting winter Wrasses Yarrell Yealm young
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Page 53 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 18 - And proudly vaunts her winter vest. Within some whispering osier isle, Where Glym's* low banks neglected smile ; And each trim meadow still retains The wintry torrent's oozy stains : Beneath a willow, long forsooK, The fisher seeks his custom'd nook ; And bursting through the crackling sedge, That crowns the current's cavern'd edge, He startles from the bordering wood The bashful wild-duck's early brood.
Page 20 - When thoroughly cleaned, the fish should be wiped dry, but none of the scales should be taken off.. In this state it should be broiled, turning it often, and if the skin cracks, flour it a little to keep the outer case entire. When on table, the whole skin and scales turn off without difficulty; and the muscle beneath, saturated with its own natural juices, which the outside covering has retained, will be found of good flavour.
Page 58 - Old Esop taught vain man to look In nature's much neglected book, To birds and beasts by giving speech For lessons out of common reach ; And though 'tis said they speak no more, (Once only too in days of yore,) They whisper truths in reason's ear, If human pride would stoop to hear...
Page 56 - ... of Salmon is partaken of by Otters, and ravenous fishes, and Porpoises seem, every autumn, to visit harbours and estuaries in pursuit of them, in their upward migration ; Trout are feasted on by Otters, and many carnivorous fishes ; an Angler or...
Page 57 - Considering the value of fish as an article of food, the supply immense, the source inexhaustible, its positive worth, " an amount of human food equal to little less than a million of money drawn forth annually from the waters...
Page 45 - I am not aware that the continued use offish (if consumed in its healthful state) has any other influence on the human body than that of somewhat reducing its muscularity and vigour.
Page 56 - Trouts and 2 Eels in its stomach ; several kinds of Cetaceans prey eagerly on the shoals of Herrings, Pilchards, and Mackarel...
Page 55 - The prolificacy of edible fish is a subject fitted, for the most evident reasons, to call forth our...