one Puncturella cucuUata, a limpet-like shell with sharp ridges and a slit 

 at the apex of the cone. 



Cod hand lines have supplied us with several scallops each year. Three 

 species are in the Inlet, Chlamys hindsii, C. hindsii kincaidi, and C. hericius, 

 all in varying shades of pink and all very beautiful. The first two kinds 

 are about 2 to 2y2 inches across, the last mentioned a bit larger and more 

 vividly colored with coarse spiny ribs. These are swimming shellfish and 

 when a line drags between the valves they immediately snap shut instead 

 of prudently backing oflF. Sometimes we get the Ribbed Top Shell (Callio- 

 stoma costatujn) from the stomachs of the cod; the outside layer of the shell 

 is dissolved away by the action of the stomach acid, leaving the pretty pink 

 and blue pearl exposed. Once, in an urn-shaped sponge stuck on the hook, 

 we found a young Octopus (Octopus hongkongensis) . 



The set- line or long line has been by far the most prolific producer of 

 shells, etc. It may be from 100 fathoms to a mile in length, lies on the 

 bottom with short ganglings at regular intervals each bearing a hook; 

 perhaps a thousand on a mile of line. It is lifted by a buoy line and drags 

 a bit on the sand and rock as it is pulled, the empty hooks catching this 

 and that as they go by. At least it used to work that way. For 2 or 3 

 years now there has been little market for dogfish livers and hence, to our 

 intense regret, no set-line fishing. However, we have had over the years 

 a prodigious haul. 



Many of the species from other gear also showed up from the set-line. 

 A few each, Cidarina cidaris, Calliostoma variegatum, Puncturella cucuUata, 

 Colus morditus, and C. jordani. Modiolus modiolus, one only Colus heren- 

 deeni, and one Octopus hongkongensis, the latter from the stomach of a 

 dogfish. A good many each of Argobuccinum oregonense, Searlesia dira, 

 Nassarius mendicus, Laqueus jeffreysi, about a dozen Neptunea phoenicia. 

 Always a fair supply of the three scallops (Chlamys hindsii, C. hindsii 

 kincaidi and C. hericius), one notable contribution of 9 specimens, 7 C. h. 

 kincaidi and 2 C. hericius, these last two from the stomach of a large red 

 anemone, all taken at the same time from approximately the same spot. 



The list of those peculiar to the set-line is quite impressive. A tiny 

 brown limpet making its home on kelp, Acmaea instahilis; Lepeta concen- 

 trica, small, whitish, and limpet-like with faint striations and the perio- 

 stracum eroded away at the apex; Solariella peramahilis, a pearly turban 

 looking like a small tube wound round leaving an open umbilicus; the 

 common little Checkered Littorine (Littorina scutulata); the White Slipper 

 Shell (Crepidula nivea) oval, clinging flatly, pearly inside with a deck 

 squarely across one end; Melanella comoxensis, tiny pink-spired snails (our 

 specimens were picked oflf an old shoe); Ocenehra fraseri, a knobby little 

 fellow with a sort of basketwork sculpture; Trophon tenuisculptus, similar 

 to the last but longer and slimmer with an elongated and twisted canal; 

 Olivella hoetica, the Little Olive, purplish and porcelain-like, one only 

 taken oflf Scuttle Bay; Siphonaria thersites, looking like a brown horn limpet 

 but with a slight groove running from the vertex to the margin inside; 

 Loligo opalescens, the slim squid with its opalescent hues. 



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