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In a most unfishlike manner, capelin come ashore to spawn; their eggs will incubate in the beach gravel.
This strange behavior is described in detail in the classic 1948 monograph The Life History of Capelin
(Mallotus villosus O.F. Muller) in Newfoundland Waters, by Wilfred Templeman:
When attached the fish head toward the beach swimming vigorously and also taking advantage of the mo-
mentum of the wave. They go up the beach as far as they possibly can get in this way and then settle in
one spot as the wave recedes, all the time using their fins and tails with great rapidity. In this way they
scoop out a slight hollow in the soft sand as if trying to bury the eggs as far as possible, and the vigorous
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