Show I I QUEER t il 1 A AI I 0 rish I OIL OIls ON TROUBLED LEB WATER lEnS OrrilEs O FISH liStS By V fly By AUSTIN USTIN If H CLARK fiK Few fishes furnish furnish- better food foo for tor us than the tho In seasons seasons or oth some orne places at certain seasons of th the year ear they occur In Iii great abundance and furnish the tho basIs basi for Important fisheries I Rape Rape- Is VI I this till true at the th lie West est Indian Island of ot Barbados Barbado When hen 1 WIlS WB at Barbados J I occasionally went out out Ol oil 01 hO boats of ot tim th the numerous fleets voted de tie tie- voted to tho the capture ot of the fly fly- ty fish ing-fish While hIie fling tl fishes Jump from Cram tho ho water and glide elide ay a a ay right and amid left left- a a small boat does not m In the tho least It If you are In a small boat there may b be thousands tho sands of oC of them about you ou and you may never learn arn their thIr presence Through this peculiarity they arc are easy to secure cure V VV V SUNLIGHT REFLECTS Whim the trade trado wind Is blow blow- blowIng blow liy log Ing the tho sura surface e of oC the sea Is covered with tIL little waves from which from which the th sunlight Is reflected so that a relatively small amount all penetrates beneath the surface While to us the ocean looks looks Js J's cs- cs S bright and sparkling In a brisk breeze beneath the tho th surface It l Is dark darle and gloomy for tor all nil the myriadS of oC sparkles that catch our eye mean ft a corresponding amount amount ot of light ll rebounding corn the the Instead ot of penetratInG penetrating InG It It ft Is under these conditions that the fishermen go co forth to catch the tho For this the they t go to for tor a n long Ions distance until tho ito shore horo begins ln to disappear as 11 the tho flyIng Is 1 pre eminently a 1 creature of oC the time high seas as asand and anti well knows the lie h dangers dancers that t lurk In water OU OX ON WATER Having arrived at what he con con- con a suitable location the fisherman throws 0 ot overboard sonic oil oily matter usually because bor i most available a some om hAlt do- do decayed d fl fl Ing from front H II prey prey- lon rev rev- louis lOlls catch Time nie Th phi oil spreads out ut and forms forma about the n a relatively quiet area boat The ThO waves wave within this cease to sparkle and antI th the cur sur sur race here hero takes take on a dark and aspect But looked at from rom below blow Just the rovers reverse oc- oc occurs oc occur all curs cure cur The of oC the wave wave- wavelets a 8 lets results In the tho th formation of at a brilliantly lighted ratch r Though previously no flying flying- rish ugh at au all were visible tho time vater about the th b boat at now nov Ith them They ha hace ha come conic come In lit nil all directions attracted by the bright spot on the tho surface With SIh frantic haste hast th they y are arc scooped Into the boat with lIp dip nets dip they nets do not to fly Cly till 1111 ill suddenly they thoy hoy Ill all ill vanish several everal largo large hooks on strong lines are aro thrown out each with bait a a as and one ono or more is JS often orten seized by a dolphin or a shark whatever It was as that frightened the tho th lying fish fish away The Th oil olt has haa now become so scattered that it Its effect I Is lost and the sails away to try his lila luck elsewhere |