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Halibut

This excellent fish is not prized as it ought to be, probably on account of its cheapness. Its flesh is delicate and wholesome, and rather resembles turbot in taste. The halibut grows to an enormous size, weighing sometimes as much as a hundred pounds, but those fish are the best which weigh from twenty to forty pounds. The "tit-bits" are the flackers over the fins, and the pickings about the head. It is abundant in spring and summer. It is, we believe, a favourite fish with the Jews.