216 THE FAUNA OF THE SALCOMBE ESTUARY. 



APPENDIX. 



NOTES ON THE SEINE AND TRAMMEL FISHING IN 

 SALCOMBE HARBOUR DURING 1900. 



The following tables have been compiled from information kindly placed at 

 our disposal by Mr. J. Luskey Coad, of Salcombe. They provide a record of 

 the results of each day's fishing during the season with a seine and a trammel- 

 net inside the harbour. The seine hauls were made at various points in the 

 estuary ; the trammel net, on the other hand, was always shot just inside the 

 harbour bar. 



The season, as may be inferred from the tables, was not a very good one, 

 the most notable catch being that of twenty bass, averaging \h lb. weight, in 

 the trammel on September 17th. Mr. Coad remarks that the trammels shot 

 by other boats outside the harbour did well with red mullet. Later in the 

 year (October) mackerel became exceptionally plentiful, many boats averaging 

 one hundred each on the morning of October 17th. The first mackerel taken 

 by Mr. Coad during the season was caught while wdiiffing off Gammon Head 

 on the 9 th of May. 



Although the seine yielded a moderate number of plaice and flounders 

 during August and September, we met with no evidence that the estuary is to 

 any extent a nursery for young flatfish, the absence of which from the muddy 

 foreshores was a marked feature. 



In explanation of the term " Ilud," which is once used in the first table, 

 Mr. Coad adds that the creature is " an ink fish, similar to the squid, of a 

 brownish green colour." He identifies it with the genus Ommastreplies, and 

 states that the specimens caught this year averaged from about 6 to 12 inches 

 in length. The squid {Loligo) caught this year varied between 3 and 14 

 inches in total length. 



W. G. 



