Show The Fecundity of Fishes In the annual report of the fishery board of Scotland it is stated that the number of eggs of thirtynine species have been estimated Of all the fishes the ling produces the greatest number say from twenty to thirty million The gurnard produces but a few hundred that are taken care of by the male which places them in Docket situated near his abdomen The cod produces all the way from two to eight million eggs the haddock had-dock about two or three hundred thousand thous-and and even a million and the coal fish from four to eight million Out of sixteen specimens of the herring exam ined the mean exceeded thirty thousand The turbot is very fecund It produces from three to ten million eggs |