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Fish for life : fast food for active bodies / Sea Fish Industry Authority, Asset, exercise professionals.
Date: [1995?]- Books
The natural history of the marketable marine fishes of the British islands / Prepared by order of the council of the Marine biological association especially for the use of those interested in the sea-fishing industries. By J.T. Cunningham ; with a preface by E. Ray Lankester.
Cunningham, J. T. (Joseph Thomas), 1859-1935.Date: 1896- Books
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An Act for allowing a drawback upon the exportation of salt, to be made use of for the curing of fish taken at north seas, or at Isleland.
Great Britain.Date: 1714]- Books
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Two letters wherein the sovereignty of the British seas, and sole right of fishing in them is asserted and maintained: with remarks on the foreign fisheries, and the Means of Rendring our Own successful. - The author's discoveries on the Nymph-Fishing-Bank, near the South Coast of Ireland; with a curious map, wherein the same is now first included. Some account of the deficiency of our sea charts, and Means proposed to rectify them at an easy Charge to the Publick. Being the second edition. To which is annexed a third letter and certificates, with a Preface concerning the Nymph-Bank and Coast adjacent, with Proposals for Establishing a Company for Executing a Fishery there, from whence (to the great Benefit of the Undertakers as well as to the Publick) the chief Cities of Ireland, and all the West and South Coast of: England and Wales, and even the City of London might be supplied with Live Cod, and other excellent Fish, far cheaper and better, than hath yet been done by Foreigners and Others. Most Humbly Inscrib'd to Sir John Barnard, Knt. and every Well-Wisher of the British and Irish Trade and Navigation. By William Doyle, hidrographer.
Doyle, William, 1705?-Date: 1739- Books
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The British angler: or, a pocket-companion for gentlemen-fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling: Comprehending all that is Curious and Useful in the Knowledge of that Polite Diversion. As: I. An Introduction; containing an Encomium on Rivers and the Art of Angling, with general Observations on the Nature of Fish. II. The Angler's Apparatus: Or, Directions concerning Rods, Lines, Hooks, Floats, and the rest of the Tackle: Also, of Baits, Natural and Artificial. III. An exact Description of the several Kinds of Fish that are found in the Rivers, and on the Sea-Coasts of Great Britain; their Size, Shape, Qualities, Seasons, Feeding, Haunts, &c. IV. The whole Practice of Angling: Teaching the Choice and Preparation of proper Stands; the Method of Taking every Species, more particularly the sportive Trout, the voracious Pike, and other Capital Game. With Descriptions of our principal Rivers, Observations relating to the Weather, and other necessary Remarks. Together with Supplemental Discourses, 1. On Fish-Ponds and Reservatories. 2. On the Laws against Poachers, and in Favour of the Fair Angler. Also, Excellent Receipts for Dressing of Fish, and a Complete Index, in which the Terms in Use among Anglers are occasionally explained. Embellished with copper-plates Curiously Engraved. The Whole compiled from approved authors, and above thirty years experience, by John Williamson, Gent. Who has added a Verification of the principal Heads, at the End of each Chapter, for the Help of Memory.
Williamson, John, angler.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]