Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1925-11-20 | Page 3 | Obliging Mackerel

Obliging Mackerel The mackerel in the warers around South Portland, Maine, are the most : oWisiti ; in the history of Ichthyology. They are so accommodating, in fact, they threaten to. put fishermen thereabouts there-abouts ou: of busines. While fishermen were 20 miles out searching in vain for a good catch of j mackerel for a canning factory, a big j school of mackerel swam through the I open space in the breakwater and di- ! rectiy to the canning factory wharf. The fish were easily netted, and by tlie time the fishermen returned with a small rafeh Ihe fish had been salted down In barrels.