Cod-Haddock - Whiting - Mackarel - Herring- Sprat - Conger Eel - Salt Water Flounder - Common Seal Marrot-Ring Dotterel Rorquhal Blowing

men-perhaps the most discriminating authorities on the whole as richer and sweeter than other gurnards, although less sought after in the market than the Red Gurnard- a fish which is drier and worse flavoured. Block's Gurnard, equally common with the grey, is now considered to be its

young.

Mackerel, though taken in the Frith with lines in numbers sufficient to supply the markets of the neighbourhood, are not plentiful when compared with the numbers captured on the English coast. They appear first in the Frith in the beginning of June, in the neighbourhood of the Bassin July off Prestonpans – but are more frequently to be found at Largo, Buckhaven, Wemyss, a few stragglers only appearing as high up as Queensferry.

Salmon, though common in the Frith, are not accounted plentiful when compared with the salmon in the Tweed. In some seasons, however, they have appeared in the Frith in greater plenty when the proportion in the rivers of the south had diminished, numbers being taken in the Forth which had been marked as fry of the Tweed. In July the principal run of salmon occurs, when the salmon fishers calculate on the stake nets yielding, for the space of a fortnight, from forty to eighty at

a tide. The Edinburgh market is thus principally supplied from the Frith till the early part of August, it is then supplied from the Tweed, and generally at the rate of 9d. per b.

The Smelt or Sperling, taken in great numbers from Queensferry to near Alloa, in the fall of the year, from November to January, is of small size, not exceeding from four to six inches. In March it ascends in large shoals to deposit spawn in the fresh water, and sheds it in immense quantity about two miles below Stirling Bridge. Being esteemed as a table luxury, considerable numbers, sent to the Edinburgh market, meet with a ready sale. The favourite subsistence of this little fish is shrimps.

Herrings enter the Frith in the end of December and beginning of January, remaining two or three weeks at the mouth of the estuary, according to the state of the weather. When mild and fine, they swarm off Musselburgh in the early part of January. In rough and stormy seasons not till February, and always disappear by the end of March. They visit the Frith regularly every winter, when a few are captured and sent to the Edinburgh market. Some Pilchards were taken in 1816 and not a dozen of herrings. Not a pilchard has entered the Frith since. In June, July, and August, herrings are