In honor of national ‘Go Fishing’ day on June 18, here’s a catch from our collection that will impress any seafood a-fish-ionado: an extensive list of the different species of fish caught near Newport in the years between 1802 and 1816. Test your aquatic know-how and see if you can tell your ‘mummy hogs’ from your mackerel, your ‘Succotergue’ from your suckerfish!
Box 76, Folder 2, NHS Collection.