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in one year. They were of considerable 

 value as bait for cod and turbot, and were 

 bought for that purpose principally by the 

 Dutch fishermen. A small quantity are still 

 caught annually at Teddington, where a 

 commercial fishery is carried on. Lamperns 

 may certainly be considered rare in Berkshire. 

 The writer saw about a dozen fish of this 

 species collected in a small hole in the gravel 

 in the Lambourn one spring. They were 

 acting in the same manner as lamperns are 



said to act when breeding, but they were 

 about the size of the next fish mentioned, 

 namely the pride or mud lamprey. 



22. Mud Lamprey (Pride, Blind Lamprey, 

 Fringe-lipped Lamprey). Petromyzon 

 brancbialiS) Linn. 



This little fish is found in the Thames and 

 its tributaries, but cannot generally speaking 

 be called common. In Plot's History of Ox- 

 fordshire it is termed the ' Pride of the Isis.' 



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