Abstract
RECENTLY the chairman and one of the scientific staff of the Fishery Board for Scotland, after two seasons (1920 and 1921) in which the shoals of herring had been scarce in their usual-haunts, published communications in which it was suggested, though not distinctly asserted, that certain Atlantic currents had filled the usual grounds with hordes of salps—to the detriment of the herring. By and by it was pointed out by those familiar with salps and their life-history that such a suggestion was untenable. Now, we have an article (Scotsman, May 5) in which Mr. Arthur Samuel, M.P., Minister for Overseas Trade, again revives the subject, and by using the term “jelly-fish” for the salps has not added to the simplicity of the matter; for salps are in no way connected with jelly-fishes in structure, mode of feeding, development, or life-history.
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MCINTOSH, W. Salps and the Herring Fishery. Nature 115, 911–912 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115911a0
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