Here we have a vital part of athletic, and all sports training, for diet plays a very important part in health and strength. Indeed, whilst no food is inherently bad, too much or too little of any substance can affect performance and health.
Most polls and articles that I read whilst researching this seem to say that the very best food for athletes is salmon, so that is what we have on this card.
There are differences between whether your salmon is farmed or wild, the latter being higher in protein, and the former being engineered for additional fat content. All have over a hundred per cent of the vitamin B.12 that a human needs every day to make red blood cells, and over fifty per cent of the vitamins Niacin, which is pretty much pure energy, and Selenium which is an anti oxidant and helps the immune system to function properly.
The cards in this, the second set, are :
- Bleak
- Crayfish
- Gudgeon
- Herring
- Salmon
- Shrimp
Set one was issued in 1891, most of the cards show fishing from boats, and it is classified as F.0278 or S.0280. The two are easy to tell apart as the first version is a full plate, with no small inset to show the fish. It was issued in France and Belgium as "Peche", in Germany as "Fischfang", in the Netherlands as "Vissen", and in Spain, which I have not been able to find a title for, but it is most probably "Pesca".