1905.] 



CAPE VERDE MARINE FAUNA. 



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but a few isolated coral- colonies, compiising only three species. 

 Wading is generally impossible on account of the steepness of the 

 shoi'e and the strength of the surf, which in more or less 

 diminished strength reaches every part of the few bays. 



The native fishermen use nets, traps, and lines, principally the 

 latter, the universal bait being raw fish. Ground-bait, also raw 

 fish,'is used freely, being prepared by mastication and distributed 

 about the lines by expectoration. 



" Coral " {Corcdhcm rubrum) fishing was done in the past, but is 

 wholly abandoned now, some of the merchants attributing this to 

 the competition of the Japanese, others to the exorbitance of the 

 Portuguese Customs. 



Text-fig. 22. 



S"^ ANTONIO 



(Santo Antac 



VII? c 



Map of St. Antonio and St. Vincent. 



But at St. Vincent all these fisheries have small following in 

 comparison with the number of boats engaged in dredging for 

 small coal lost overboard from steamers and lighters. The largest 

 of the native boats, small and simply rigged cutters, engage in 

 this exclusively, using three light dredges each. However un- 

 romantic old clinkers may be as a habitat, their richness in 

 Polyzoa, Polychseta, and small Crustacea is most beautiful, and 

 the three largest of my Gephyreans were thus obtained. 



After a fortnight's very successful collecting in St. Yinceiit 



