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On the south and south-west coasts, on the contrary, 

 haddocks are met with in such small numbers that the 

 Brixham and Plymouth trawlers do not specially look 

 for them. Whiting take their place there. The catches 

 on that part of the coast are usually more varied in their 

 character than in the more distant parts of the North 

 Sea, and the hake is a fish taken there in large numbers 

 during part of the year. 



Soles are generally distributed wherever there is clean 

 sandy ground ; but they are not found so much in very 

 deep water, except during cold weather. The London 

 market is principally supplied with this fish from the 

 banks off the Norfolk coast and from the Channel ; and 

 a large proportion of the soles which are captured by 

 any of the trawlers is sent to that market, whence they 

 are distributed over the country. It is rarely that any 

 number of soles is landed at Hull, and the Glrimsby 

 shops are often supplied from London. 



Turbot are found more or less on all parts of the 

 coast ; the North Sea has long been famous for these fish, 

 especially along the Dutch shore, where, during warm 

 weather, they are caught in very shallow water. Large 

 supplies of turbot were formerly sent by the Dutch 

 fishermen to the London market long before our own 

 trawlers had established themselves on our eastern 

 coast, or had found out how much was to be done in 

 the North Sea. There are many of these fish also 

 caught in the Channel, wherever there is trawling 

 ground, and no doubt they are numerous in many 

 places where, on account either of the depth of water 

 or the nature of the bottom, no trawl has ever been 

 worked. We have heard of extraordinary catches of 

 turbot having been made in the neighbourhood of the 

 Wolf Rock, near the Land's End; but the depth of 



