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SHRIMP, PRAWN AND IjOBSTER DISTRIBUTION. 



PLA.TK I. illustrates in colours, somewhat approximately, the distribution of the Brown 

 and Pink Shrimps, and of the Common Prawn, as described in the text, also Lobster grounds. 



Yellow = Brown Shrimp, its Kent and Essex shore zone. 



Blue = Pink Shrimp, restricted to Eaftex and Suffolk seaward area. 



Pink Prawn, its predominance in S. and E. Kent waters. 



Thej7r tint, Thames mouth, where occurs overlapping and intermingling of Brown and 

 Pink Shrimps. Intercrossing are pink lines, indicative of periodical erratic wanderings north 

 of scattered companies of Prawns. The large pink stars mark the three chief centre* of our 

 Lobster fisheries ; migratory parties of lobsters radiating to and fro. 



