Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — Mackeral Haunts in Winter. [ARTICLE]

Mackeral Haunts in Winter.

Lewiston Journal, The old question, “Where do the mackeral go in winter?” is revived. When the first snow flies in the Bay of Fundy these fish disappear. They are abundant in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland until that time, plump juicy and toothsome, the result of having fed well on their migration northward. The next seen of them is in March off Gape Hatteras, when all their plumpness is gone and they look as if they had eaten nothirg all winter, and there is a scaly growth over their eyes which nearly blinds them. One theory is that the mackeral pass the xvinter in the mud, but as mackeral do not like cold water and as very few can be found in northern waters that mackeral, like birds, migrate at the coming of cold weather.