FISHES 



ever tench and roach are found together, 

 the former are always large, and there are 

 few young ones to be seen ; where there are no 

 other fish, the young tench are numerous, and 

 they never attain to a large size. The variety 

 known as golden tench (T. aured) has in 

 recent years been introduced into various 

 parts of the county, and seems to have fairly 

 established itself. 



*I02. Lake Bream. Abramis brama, Linn. 



Ouse and Brandon rivers ; very abundant 

 and attaining a large size. Yare. — J. H. G. 



' I have twice known a bream, of 7 lb. 

 weight, taken in the Wensum, at Cossey. 

 One of these specimens was : length 25^ 

 inches, depth 8^ inches, thickness 3^ inches, 

 weight 7 lb. I oz. The large bream bear 

 the local name of " bellows " in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Norwich.' — J. H. G. 



Stradsett Lake, 5* lb. — Mr. Rust, Sep- 

 tember 1st, 1 88 1. 



Mr. Norman, of Yarmouth, tells me he 

 caught a bream which weighed 8 lb. 12 oz. 



One weighing 11^ lb. was caught in a 

 pond at Beeston Regis, on June 17th, 1879. 

 c? fish, very dark in colour, 26 inches long, 

 10 inches deep, and 26 inches in girth. A P 

 taken at Thorpe on the Yare, June 23rd, 

 weighed 8J lb., and measured 23 inches long, 

 and 19^ inches in girth. — T. S. 



The hybrid with Leuciscus erythrophthalmus, 

 known as the Pomeranian bream, Leuciscus 

 buggenhagii, Cuv. & Val, has been found in 

 Surlingham Broad. — Mr. Mills. 



' One taken at Cossey, upwards of 4 lb. in 

 weight, is now in the Norwich Museum.' — 

 Lubbock. 



*I03. White Bream. Abramis blicca, Bloch. 

 Norfolk Broads. — Lubbock. 



*I04. Bleak. Alburnus lucidus, Heck. & 

 Kner. 



Very abundant in ditches at North Woot- 

 ton. I have seen some which were taken in 

 the Ouse, below Denver sluice, at low water. 

 Though probably occurring in other parts of 

 Norfolk, these are the only localities in which 

 I have any record of their having been taken. 



Gay wood River ; 1878. 



*io5. Loach. Nemachilus barbatula, Linn. 



' Not gregarious or abundant, but found in 

 the smaller streams, wherever stones afford a 

 lurking place.' — Lubbock. 



MALACOPTERYGII 



**lo6. Salmon. Salmo salar, Linn. 



Yarmouth. 



' Small ones have been very rarely taken 

 in the mackerel nets'. — Paget. 



Sir T. Browne observes : ' Salmon no 

 common fish in our rivers, though many 

 were taken in the Ouse ; in the Bure, or 

 north river ; in the Waveney, or south river ; 

 in the Norwich river but seldom, and in the 

 winter. But four years ago, fourteen were 

 taken at Trowse Mill at Christmas, whose 

 mouths were stuck with small worms, or 

 horse leeches, no bigger than fine threads. 

 . . . Most of our salmon have a recurved 

 piece of flesh in the end of the lower jaw, 

 which, when they shut their mouths, deeply 

 enters the upper, as Scaliger hath noted in 

 some.' 



Of late years, the salmon seems to have 

 disappeared from the Norfolk coasts. The 

 only instance of which I have any record, is 

 one which was caught in a flooded meadow 

 at Lakenham, about December ist, 1873. 

 This was shown by Mr. Gurney to Dr. 

 Gunther, who pronounced it beyond doubt 

 a true salmon. It has been presented by Mr. 

 Birkbeck to the Norwich Museum. 



Mr. Gurney says this is the first Norfolk 

 salmon he has seen. 



Mr. Southwell informs me that one was 

 taken on January 15th, 1869, below the 

 New Mills, which weighed 15 lb., and is 

 now in the possession of Mr. C. J. Greene, 

 Norwich. On January 29th, 1869, he saw 

 one in the Norwich fish market weighing 

 175 lb., which was taken by some boys in 

 the flooded meadows at Trowse. And on 

 February 6th, 1884, a male kelt, measuring 

 37 inches, and weighing 13 lb., was taken, 

 under similar circumstances, in a ditch on 

 Trowse Common. One caught with fly, 

 by Mr. G. F. Buxton, in the Stoke river, 

 weighed 6 lb.. May 20th, 1897. Mr. Bux- 

 ton had it preserved for the Norwich 

 Museum. — T. S. 



'One 13^ lb. taken in draw-net at Gor- 

 leston, May "17th, 1898.'— T". S. 



**I07. Sea Trout. Salmo trutta, Linn. 



Frequently caught in the Ouse and 

 Estuary. In the Bure and Waveney.- — 

 Lubbock. 



Mr. Stevenson reports that one was taken 

 with rod and line at Lyng Mills, March, 

 1862. It weighed 15 lb., and was 31 

 inches in length. Another taken at the 

 same place soon afterwards weighed 10 lb. 



