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Title: The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Faber, George Louis
Subjects: Fisheries -- Austria Fisheries -- Adriatic Sea
Publisher: London : B. Quaritch
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ozo, elongatus and paganellus, whilst three others are fresh-water fishes. The Red Band-fish (Cepola rubescens) is common, but of little or novalue. The Blennies rank with the Gobies in many respects ; they are shore-fishes, and some of them enter brackish waters and have become fresh-waterfishes ; they belong, as a rule, to the class of minutaja (mixed fish); the onlyexceptions are two species, viz., B. gattorugine, which attains to a length oftwelve inches, and B. ocellaris, both British species. Two are fresh-waterfishes. The Spet (Sphyrama vulgaris) is one of the rare class, and has noimportance in the fisheries. The Atherines, to which the name of Smelt is misapplied from theirresemblance to the real smelt, have little value as food ; they are common insummer all over the gulf, and the young fry is sold in many sea-ports friedor baked in milk under the name of Nonnati (Nonnatx of the French, 1 The young, for some time after they are hatched, cling together in dense masses, and in
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AND THE FISH THEREOF. 8r Aphycs of the Ancients); they are also preserved in oil (Angucla marinata).They are, however, only consumed by the poor. Being one of the few kindsof fish which spawn in the lagoons and brackish waters, their chief value isas food for the more valuable kinds of fishes which are reared in the valliof the lagoons. There they come under the denomination of Pesce da strame(strame = fodder). Sometimes they are caught in such quantities in thelagoons of Commacchio that whole cargoes are shipped to serve as manure.They are shore-fishes, living in large shoals, and the fry collects and ascendsthe rivers in shoals. Three species are known here, all are common. The Grey Mullets (Mugilidez), known in these parts by the generalterm of Cievolame, are of great importance ; there are five common species,all of which are numerous, prolific, and develope rapidly. They endure morethan other kinds of fishes the rapid changes of temperature ; they preferbrackish waters, and the s

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