OYSTER CULTURE IN ENGLAND. 437 



With reference to the Lynn Fishery, I have to report: 



That the Corporation is not now properly carrying the 

 Order into effect with respect to the oyster beds. 



I am, &c., 

 (Signed) W. E. HALL. 



The Assistant Secretary, 

 Harbour Department, Board of Trade. 



PAGLESHAM OYSTER FISHERY. 

 24, Ladbroke Square, W., ^Q>th October, 1876. 



Sir, In compliance with the request contained in your 

 letter of the jist July last, that I should take advantage of 

 my visit to Essex in the matter of the Shelford Creek 

 Fishery Order, to make an inspection of the Paglesham 

 Fishery, with a view to ascertaining whether the ground is 

 being properly cultivated, I visited the fishery on the 22nd 

 August, and after making a careful examination with the 

 dredge, I beg to inform you that I found that the mud, 

 weeds, and ''vermin" with which the ground was originally 

 covered have been removed almost over the entire area 

 (four acres), and that clean cultch has been substituted, on 

 which 65 bushels of brood and half-ware oysters, and 15 

 bushels of full grown oysters, have been laid down as 

 stock. 



The result of these measures is now seen in the fact, 

 that wherever the dredge is thrown it brings up hundreds, 

 I might almost say, without exaggeration, thousands of 

 young spat, the majority this season's produce. I should 

 say that, with a fairly mild winter, there is now a sufficient 

 quantity of brood and spat, the indigenous produce of the 



