Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, in Cambridge, 1957, Vol. 117
Also, we should remind the reader, who may not be familiar with the use of the trawl in deep water, that the depths of cap ture reported by this method, under the several genera, are in reality those at which the trawl was dragging on the bottom. This is not necessarily the depth at which the shark in question was living, for it is always possible that any particular specimen (even of the species that hold closest to the bottom) may have been picked up when the trawl was being lowered, or hauled up again through the water. The only precise data in this regard are for specimens caught on hook and line. And we have very few definite records of depths of capture for line-caught sharks.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
