Mackerel fishing methods, pilot fish and painted mackerel

Mackerel fishing methods: walled channels and grate to catch spawning mackerel with the tide 47a, and fishermen in boats unfurling nets to encircle a school of mackered 47b. Painted mackerel, Scomberomorus regalis 48, and pilot fish, Naucrates ductor 49. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon

Channels Ductor Encyclopedia Gottlieb Grate Ichthyology Mackerel Method Naucrates Nets Nilson Regalis Spawning Tide Tobias Walled

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