A rather smaller-sized herring than the common species. It is generally met with in small shoals in May and June.
Clupea sprattus [The Sprat or Garnet Herring].
This is also met with about the same time, but in smaller numbers.
Alosa finta [The Twaite Shad].
Rare. A very fine specimen was taken in our river last summer, about a mile from the sea.
Alosa communis [The Alice Shad].
The same may be said of this species,—it is rare. They are termed, “rock herring.”
Morrhua vulgaris [The Cod].
It is to the stomach of this species that I am most indebted for many of the rarer of the testaceous and crustaceous specimens which I possess. (For the cod’s bill of fare see [p. 284].) The cod is extensively fished for along this part of the coast, and may be termed the poor man’s salmon. Great numbers are salted and dried, and in that state sent to the southern markets. I have occasionally met with a cod of a red colour, in all save the fins, which are generally of a yellowish tinge, and never larger than a common sized haddock. They are known here by the name of “rock codlings.”
Morrhua œglefinus [The Haddock].