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Circe minima, Mont. ; Tellina pusilla, Phillip! ; Chiton 

 cinereus. Pennant ; Trophon truncatus, Strom ; Philine 

 scabra, Miiller, and P. pruinosa, Clarke (rare) ; Sepiola 

 Rondeletii^ Leach (i ex.) ; Echinoscyamus angulosus, Leach ; 

 Sthenelais limicola, Ehlers \Lumbriconereisfragilis, O. Mull.; , 

 Glycera Goesii, Mgrn. Among Crustacea, Hyale Nilssoni, H. 

 Rath.; Ampelisca Belliana, Bate ; Arcturus longicornis, Sow. ; 

 Idotea tricuspidata, Desm. ; Diastylis Rathkii, Kroyer ; 

 Hippolyte securifrons, Norm. ; Galathea dispersa, Bate ; 

 Hyas coarctatus, Leach ; Portunus pusillus, Leach. 



Around our coast, whether correctly asserted or not so, 

 still fishermen appear to believe that our inshore fisheries 

 are being depleted, and only last week the following 

 remarks in the Field appeared from the pen of Mr. Barber, 

 of Mevagissey : " Long-line fishing all along our coasts is 

 now in the ascendant, and the system of fishing with hand- 

 lines is gradually becoming obsolete ; but although a larger 

 amount of fish is being caught than under the old system, 

 it is evidently a most destructive method, as a great many 

 fish which get hooked, in the death-agony twist themselves 

 off the line with the hooks attached, and must evidently 

 waste and die to no purpose. We believe the time is fast 

 approaching when this system of fishing will exterminate 

 all the conger-eels, cod, ling, ray, and skate within twenty 

 miles of our coast, as now, to be successful, the boats have 

 to proceed at least double that distance from shore, which 

 seems a striking contrast when compared with the heavy 

 hauls which were made some ten years since by hand-lines 

 at a distance varying from five to ten miles off, where now 

 scarcely any fish of the description mentioned are to be 

 caught." 



I must now bring to a conclusion this most imperfect 

 sketch of the food of our fishes, a subject which, were it 



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