The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
The Herring.

The herring, though a small fish,
commercially attractive enough to oft
find it's own prospects of peace a
longevity seriously endangered.
diminutive size causes it to suffer me
from inny enemies than either the
or the mackerel, and its spawning
pacity is comparatively feeble-a me
trife of thirty thousand eggs, which
mackerel exceeds by fifteen or TWEEN
times, and the cod by 8 hundred
more. And yet there seems no limit
the quantity of herring. Were the
mand many times as great as it is,
could easily be supplied from this 81,
OF the ocean. This is doubtless due
great measure to the peculiar seclri
enjoyed by the spawn and the youn
Instead of floating, oritice downwar
like the eggs of most other fish, herrin
spawn sinks to the bottom, the orific'
OF the eggs being upward. and, as it
deposited in deep water, there are bl
few fish that interfere with it. TT
young, finding no loving parent me-
to guide their youthful steps, sensib.
remain close to their birthplace, fec
ing upon diatoms and the smaller crHs
aeea, until they grow old enough az
strong enough to venture abroad. M
gratory only to limited extent, it
probable that the herring changes i
base only on account of annoyance fro
larger fish. They are caught inshol
by many varieties of seines and pound
and the hook has occasionally bee
tried upon them by self-suficient Gil
youths, urged thereto by sea, shore DO,
who wished to remove the conceit fro
their visitors. To attempt to lure wit
hook and line fish which cannot bit
but lives wholly by suction, and
spend long hours at the attempt. ind
the stimulus of some wonderful sto.
about how many some other CITY you
caught in the same way, is very slim
lative Of ones memory of the imprec
tory Psalms and of other scripture
misquoted by the wicked.
The herring, like the other fs
named, inhabits cold water, the line
Long Island sound being its southel
boundary, while it is far TO the mort
that it must be sought in quantit
The secret of the selection of partic,
lar localities for fish homes seems e.
planned by an examination of the cours
Of the great Arctic current. This bod
of cold water, starting from the Spit
bergen seas, flows westerly until
strikes the Greenland coast, when
changes it's course to the southwark
and carries great masses of cold waite
into localities the latitude of whicl
leads one to look for high temperatur.
in the water. It is a branch of thi
current that enables the cod to live ant
multiply about Block island and Nan
tucket shoals, in water at 40 deg, while
farther north bathers at the beach lux
uriate In water at 70 deg. The same
current forces its way into the Gulf o.
st. Lawrence, which is the most profit
able fishing ground in the world, and
probably has something to do with the
phenomenal tides in the Bay of Fundy.
This current brings not only cold water
but food for the fish. This food con-
slsts Of diatoms and other minute forms
OF vegetable and animal life. Coming
into existence in a latitude higher than
that Of the fish that devour it, this food
is swept southwark by the great Arctic
current, and wherever it is found the
waters are almost alive with fish. Prof
Hind says that although the sea of
Canada and the United StattIs appears
| abundant in life, it is nevertheless al
most desert compared with the North
ern seas, particularly on the Labrador
and Greenland coasts. There the
ocean at times seems to be thick with
fish, and to such an extent that
during single night the temperature
of the water will be materially infu-
enced by animal life!-Joh71 HG6ber-
tom, IN HGrper'.s Magazine.
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