Garfish Eggs, &c. ; Flying Fish. 



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are covered with spiculce, like spider's web, which enable them 

 to adhere to sticks and weeds." 



Fig. 14. EGGS of GARFISH 

 (greatly enlarged) showing the 

 fine filaments binding them to- 

 gether, and by which they like- 

 wise adhere to foreign bodies. 

 ( After Mclntosh and Mastertnan). 



Now and again young gorebills, resembling needles over a 

 couple of inches long, get sent off in the whitebait boxes. Their 

 tenuity prevents them being readily detected amongst the mass 

 of glittering fish. The larger garfish caught at Leigh are only 

 used by the fishermen's families ; at Brighton they ; ' are likewise 

 disregarded " (Webb) ; but on the other hand they are often 

 brought for sale by the fish-hawkers to Maldon and vicinity 

 in quantities. 



There is a limited special fishery for the garpike in the 

 neighbourhood around the mouth of the Black water. The 

 interests involved in the said fishery were not large, nevertheless 

 they gave rise to a lively discussion at the July meeting, 1890. 

 Hence separation of Nos. 3 and 4 in our Committee's Bye-Laws. 

 The most curious thing is that the more valuable smelt gets 

 less protection in size of net mesh than does the rapacious and 

 destructive garfish. 



(2.) The FLYING FISH (Exoccetus volitans ? ). We have here 

 to add to our District's fish-fauna a rare traveller from the 

 Atlantic. This unique example got up the Medw r ay as far as 

 Rochester at the end of September, 1898. A person noticing a 

 fish leap from the water and skim along the surface, struck out 



