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8 inches in length. It had a peculiarly rounded 

 tail, the lobes of the fin being curved instead of 

 strait and V-shapen. I put it in a pail of water, 

 and for an hour or so amused myself at its 

 expense, and finally turned it adrift again, ap- 

 parently none the worse for my attentions or its 

 imprisonment. 



It was reported in the Eastern Daily Press that 

 a Plaice SO inches in length was hooked near 

 Potter Heigham, fifteen miles up the Bure, and in 

 the heart of the Broadlands. I should incline to 

 suspect it was a Flounder, a species now and again 

 captured in fresh waters. 



In July 1903, whilst fishing at Wroxham Broad, 

 an angler landed what he described in the same 

 newspaper as " a sea flat fish of the Plaice species," 

 in all probability a Flounder. I myself, while 

 fishing at Reedham, fully twelve miles from Yar- 

 mouth, have taken the Shorecrab (Car emus mcenas). 



A small Shark a Tope (Galeus vulgar w\ between 

 5 and 6 feet in length, altogether lost its bearings 

 in September 1903, and coming three miles up- 

 river, found itself in Breydon. Either the sewage 

 discomfited him, or his more restricted swim 

 hampered his movements; anyway, it was soon 



