The Fishing Industry

In its essential features the story of the gradual rise and development of the fishing industry closely resembles that of its sister industry, agriculture. In both cases man bec...

Fishes are the most primitive vertebrate, i.e. backboned, creatures known. All reptiles, birds, and animals have gradually evolved from fish-like ancestors by a series of age-lo...

Fish may be captured with spear, trap, line or net. Which of these methods is employed necessarily depends very much upon the size and habits of the fish, and upon the skill and...

Herrings abound in the waters round the coast of Great Britain. Ordinarily they are widely scattered in deep water, but at certain times of the year they come together in shoals...

The cod is widely distributed in the northern and temperate seas of Europe and America. It lives close to the bottom, in from 25 to 50 fathoms of water, and feeds upon fish, sma...

Unlike the drift net, which only catches fish of one species and of fairly uniform size when they are swimming near the surface, the trawl net scoops up practically all the inha...

Shellfish are divided into two classes: Crustacea, including the lobster, crab, shrimp, prawn, and mollusca, including the oyster, mussel, cockle and periwinkle. Shellfish gener...

Whales are the most important members of a large family of land animals including also the seals, walrus, and porpoise, that have gradually become adapted to live in the sea. Th...

The preservation of fishes for use as food long after they have been caught is a matter of constantly increasing importance to the prosperity of the fishing industry. In most ot...

Some fishes are unsuitable for food because they have an unattractive taste; others are directly poisonous. Thus, in the Japanese fish of the genus tetrodon, the roe is poisonou...

The industrial value and importance of fishes is by no means limited to their use as food. They yield large quantities of valuable oil. The fish waste, or offal, chiefly heads,...