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THE FAUNA OF THE EXE ESTUARY. 



Plaice taken in the Bight north of the Warren by Mr. Holt 

 with the Laboratory Tuck Net in May, 1897. 



Size ill inches. Nuiuber. 



Plaice taken at Exmouth during July and August, 1901, almost 

 wholly in Salthouse Lake, with Shove Net. 



Size in inches. Number. Size. Number. Size. 



H 20 



If 40 





Number. 



4 



1 



1 



Pleukonectes LiMANDA, lAnnccus. Off north side of the Warren, 

 April and May, 1897, nine, 9-11-5 cm. Bullhill Bank, May, 1897, 

 eleven, 9-5-12.5 cm. [E. AV. L. IL] 



Pleuronectes flesus, Linnceus. Off the north side of the Warren, 

 May, 1897, one of 13 cm. and one of 30-5 cm. ; Bullhill Bank, April 

 and May, 1897, five, 9-5-17 cm. [E. W. L. H.] 



Salmo salak, Linnceus. There is a regular salmon fishery in the 

 Exe estuary during the season, which gives employment to several large 

 rowing boats, each of which is manned by four to six men and works 

 one seine. The seine is about one hundred fathoms long and three 

 to four fathoms deep in the middle, where there is a bag, and narrows 

 to a fathom at each end, with a mesh of A\ inches. The net is shot 

 across the stream, then towed down with the tide for two or three 

 hundred yards and hauled. Each boat generally manages two and 

 sometimes three hauls at low water. 



Belone vulgaris {Linnceus). One was cauglit when seining for 

 sand-eels (AmnioclT/tes) off Polesands. 



Clupea harengus, Linnceus. Bullhill Bank, seine, April, 1897, 

 two, 26 and 29 cm. ; and north side of Warren, seine, April, 1897, six, 

 23-5-32-5 cm. [E W. L. H ] 



