Show is at once exciting perilous and remunerative last year swordfish eold aa high as eleven cents a pound in this port and a single fish will often weigh or even 1000 pounds the method of getting the fish affords an opportunity for great sport like the shark the swordfish can be seen for a considerable distance by his black fin which protrudes above the surface of the water as he swims but unlike the chark the swordfish mores steadily with the upper tip of his tail also out of the water aa rigid and steady as the fin itself swordfish also generally go in shoals the swordfish is captured by means of a long spear or harpoon to the shank of this beear ia attached a stout ime about feet long and to the end of the line is made fast a stout water tight cask each harpoon is good for one swordfish and a schooner usually carries a considerable number of them portland me press |