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Peculiarities Of The Blue Fish

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Day
11
Month
February
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Economist, of Elizabeth City, N. C. , in an article upon the gro wing importance of the blue fishing industry of the coast of that State, between Hatteras and Cape Henry, calis attention to the following remarkable physical facts coneerning this favorite food fish: "The blue fish is himself, hybernice, a rara avis. He does not propágate his species according to the ordinary laws of reproduction among his kind. Unlike other fish known to naturalista, the blue fiah is without a roe. By a singular provisión of nature, this physical want is supplied by a small bug, which is fonnd in the mouth and throat generally, and sometimes in other parts of the body ; in shape like a turtle and about the size of au old-fashioned silver-quarter. This Imp;, although full of vitality, is without viscera or the organs of sight. In place of the viscera, it contains nothing but of;a;s. It is in fact a sack full of blue Í. ih eggs. At a later stage of the blue fish growfi, this bug, or sack, passes down and deposits the oontents of its body along the back bone of the fish, and then its mission is at an end. This singular phenomenon in natural history, we leave to the disciples of Agassiz to explain, or submit it as a matter for scientific investigation, whüe we vouch the truthof the fact."

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Old News
Michigan Argus