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Fish

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:

Note about eating fish and vocabulary notes, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/69
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Note about eating fish probably collected on Ìle/Islay stating that 'The ugsa and Pioc[aich] are the cleanest eats in the sea. Fry of herring eat[en] ciuban used as bait'. The vocabulary notes show 'Bacach = Turbot' and 'Bradan-Leathan = Halibut'.

Dates: June 1887

Note about grilse, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/135
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Note about grilse that they hatch in the spring and are full size by the autumn. Also notes that 'banag' is a sea-trout.

Dates: August 1883

Note about herring and hake, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/46
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Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Calmoir Herring haig - dif[ficult] to fish.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about lumpfish which reads 'Griasaich young of Mac-lamhaich - Sea Devil', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/156
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Note about lumpfish which reads 'Griasaich young of Mac-lamhaich - Sea Devil'.

Dates: 1894

Note about pouches on fish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/79
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Note about pouches on fish collected on Ìle/Islay that 'Crag-dhu has pouch on each side large...Sporan faolin in Murlach [dogfish].' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about salmon and deer, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/136
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Notes about salmon and deer, which are quite confused but appear to indicate some connection between them perhaps in relation to hunting.

Dates: August 1883

Note about sun fish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/85
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Note about sun fish collected in Ìle/Islay that in 'Cuan Barra' fish 'flap mov[in]g on surface of sea' and are '11 or 13 f[ee]t long like a shell tough as hide'. Also mentions 'Nathar-tragh' [nathair-traghad or sand-eel] which has a pencil-like point and the flapping of the 'Gear[r]a cnuacach'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about the 'Cathrathain', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/66
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Note about the 'Cathrathain', probably collected on Ìle/Islay, that it is like a small eel and sucks blood out of others.

Dates: June 1887

Note about the fish 'An t-iasg' [mullet], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/71
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Note about the fish 'An t-iasg' [mullet] probably collected on Ìle/Islay, stating that it has a gullet like a duck's. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about the fish 'bacach cearr' [sole], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/77
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Note about the fish 'bacach cearr' [sole] collected on Ìle/Islay that '80 score [were] sent to market' having been caught on 'Bank an iar' [west bank]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

Dates: June 1887