The Ways of Fishes

Abstract

FISHERMEN, both amateur and professional, in salt water and in fresh, have long been puzzled by many things concerning the fish that they catch. “Do fish sleep? What colours can they distinguish? Do they suffer pain? How do they find the way?’ are but a few of the questions to which they are always seeking and seldom finding reliable answers. Nevertheless, by observation and simple experiment based mainly on trial and error, such amateur naturalists have made many interesting and valuable contributions to our knowledge of fish life. Perhaps their most important discoveries have been where to find the fish and how to catch them—both prerequisites to finding out most other things about them.

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