The Feeding-Ground of the Herring

Abstract

IN your issue of October 24, Mr. Alexander Turbyne takes exception to the belief that copepods are most abundant between the Laminarian zone and the 20-fathom line. He gives his experience to prove that they congregate chiefly “in the deep water over the mud,” and his contention is that herrings found with great numbers of copepods in their stomachs feed, for the most part, at considerable depths, as in the depressions of 70 to 90 fathoms found in Loch Fyne.