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And then it grew time for the river-mackerel, and they used to bring in at sunset two or three hundred in a shining heap, together with great lobsters that looked as if they'd been carved out of heliotrope-stone, and so old that they were barnacled.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862
He was as dead as a mackerel, and so he could not say what it was; but the ould people was all sure that it was nothing at all but the ould Judge, God bless us!— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
A dozen men were drawing up the last net; but when they gathered round to see what they had taken--mackerel or jelly-fish--I cared no longer to look with them.— Afoot in England
With mackerel, the most profitable catch, this is very important, as the mackerel so speedily deteriorates; but a good deal of the fishery that takes place off the Scillies is not in the hands of Scillonians--Cornishmen, East Anglians, foreigners, all compete.— The Cornwall Coast
For mackerel which is a surface and midwater fish, they are much shorter, so that the headrope lies just below the top of the water Nets shot, the fishermen make fast the road for'ard; sup, smoke, sing, creep under the cutty, and sleep with one eye open Sometimes they are too wet to sleep; often in the winter it is too cold Afterwards, the laborious hauling in--one man at the headrope and the other at the foot.— A Poor Man's House

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