Drayton and Carr: Fishes of Trent, 1622 and 1897. 
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The Roche * whose common kind to every flood doth fall ; 
The Chub * (whose neater name), which some a Chevin call, 
Food to the tyrant Pike (most being in his power), 
Who for their numerous store he most:doth them devour ; 
The lusty Salmon ® then, from Neptune’s wat’ry realm, 
When as his season serves, stemming my tideful stream, 
Then being in his kind, in me his pleasure takes, 
(For whom the fisher then all other game forsakes) 
‘Which bending of himself to th’ fashion of a ring, 
Above the forcéd wears himself doth nimbly fling, i, 
And often when the net hath dragg’d him safe to land, dai 
Is seen by natural force to ’scape his murderer’s hand ; i 
Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded, oh 
Of many a liquorish lip that highly is regarded. des debe 
And Humber, to whose waste I pay my wat’ry store, 
Me of her Sturgeons* sends, that I thereby the more 
Should have my beauties grac’d with something from him sent : 
Not Ancum’s silvered Eel ® exceedeth that of Trent ; 
Though the sweet-smelling Smelt ° be more in Thames than me, 
The Lamprey‘ and his less*® in Severne general be ; 
* Roach (Leuwciscus rutilus L.). ‘Abundant ; the best Nottingham 
specimen in the Museum weighed, when in the flesh, 1 Ib. 10% 
2 
* Chub (Leuciscus cephalus L.). Very common in the Trent: fine 
pope ieee ng five to six pounds, are not infrequent. 
n (Salmo salar L.). Occurs every year in many pore: of the 
river, Oa aaa and below Nottingham, but not very com 
+ Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio L.). Very rare in the Trent, and 
has not, I believe, been seen near Nottingham for many years. The last one 
that I can hear of was taken at Clifton, some few miles above the city... Thi 
is a curious coincidence, as there is an old popular belief that the presence 
of one of these fish in the Trent above Nottingha am pres ages the death of 
right bank of the river. On June roth, 1884, a fine e Sturgeon was captured 
at Muskham, near Newark, ini the salmon nets; it was eight feet long, and 
a 16 stones (‘ Field,’ June 14th, 188. 4a 
* Eel ymangund vulgaris Fleni. ): “Very common in the river,,and 
spk toa large 
* IT have no saeidige of the Smelt (Osmerus Lcseahs L.) as a 
fcte fish, and doubt if it has s ever been taken in the county. 
Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus L.). Occurs in the Trent, but not 
; commonly 5 ; a fine specimen caught in the river at Fiskerton, about a. vee 
ABO is now in the dupe dene: Moser: Ag 
3S This refers Petrom ) fluviatilis L. ma which Was : 
once very abundant j in be the e Trent, and i is still common. a : 
: Pies 1898. 
