Natural history of British fishes : their structure, economic uses and capture by net and rod, cultivation of fish-ponds, fish suited for acclimatisation, artificial breeding of salmon / by Frank Buckland.

  • Francis Trevelyan Buckland
Date:
[pref. 1880]
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Credit: Natural history of British fishes : their structure, economic uses and capture by net and rod, cultivation of fish-ponds, fish suited for acclimatisation, artificial breeding of salmon / by Frank Buckland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of these fish. Mr. Frank Gosclen, of Exeter, sent me about 41hs. of anchovies; out of this quantity several bottles of sauce were made, and the result was a perfect success.” All, therefore, that is wanted to start an anchovy fishery in Cornwall is a fleet of small-meshed nets, and after the fish are once caught, means could be soon found to make them into sauce and anchovy paste. Thousands of sprats are sold in the form of anchovy paste. They are prepared in the following way: ‘‘To preserve a peck of sprats, put 21bs. of salt, 3oz. of bay-salt, 11b. of saltpetre, 2oz. of ]Drunella, and a few grains of cochineal into a mortar, and pound them well together; put into a stone jar first a layer of fish, then a layer of the composition. AVhen the jar is full, press them hard down and cover close for six months, when they will be fit for use.” We believe the anchovy of commerce as imported is only salted with coarse salt. THE ANGLER, FISHING-FROG, OR POCKET FISH. Acanthopteri. Lophiidee. [LopJiius j^iscatorius.) French : Bavdroie. Dutch : Zee Duivel. German : Der Frosch- Jlscli. In Layid and Water, April 27, 1872, I published the following:—“Messrs. Gilson and Allen, fishmongers, of 7, South Colonnade, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, and 19, Haymarket, London, have kindly sent me a monster Fishing-frog, or Angler Fish {Lophius pisca- torius). The total length of this fine fellow was, from nose to end of tail, 4 feet 7 inches; Avidth across
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