A Treatise on Fishing for Herrings, Cod, and Salmon; Or Preserving Them, as Practised by the Different Nations of Europe (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800. Excerpt: ... COD AND SALMON FISHING, TRANSLATED FROM M. DUHAMEVs TRAITE GENERAL DES PESCHES. Of Cod-fish in general. UNDER the name of Cod-fish, are omprized several sorts of fifties, which naturalists refer to one family, under the general denomination oiAsellus, Gadus, Morhua, or Molua. That fish, which in Holland, and on the Flemish coast, is called Cabil/aud, by the Basques Bacaillau, in the interior of France Morue, and on some coasts Mo/ue, is all of one and the fame kind. According to the places, where this fish is taken, it receives different appellations. Thus the Greenland cod, is called Asellus Greenlandicus, that of Newfoundland Asellus Oceani Septentrionalis, &c. The generical marks of Cod-fish. All fishes of this family must be round and scaly. They have bones, several fins on the back and belly, and behind the anus, of which almost all the rays are pliable, besides two fins, one behind each gill, and two more under the neck or breast. Some of them have a kind of beard at the lower jaw, others not. Of the common Cod-fish. Cod-fish comes originally from the North, and spreads itself into a great part of the ocean. When the weather is very cold, they retire into deep bottoms, but, as soon as it becomes milder, they appear on the banks near the coasts, and in gulfs. They come, however, sooner or later to certain places, according as there are banks, or shoals of such fish, as they feed upon. Fishing for Cod-fish on the coasts of France. Although cod-fish is not very common on the French coasts, yet some of them are taken there either in wiers, or with lines and hooks, or in nets, laid out for taking other sorts of fish. Large cod is seldom taken by these modes of fishing j but in the Channel they frequently take young ones, that are not bigger than whitings...