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Close Season — cont. 



For Lobsters, recommended : — 

 1st November to 1st March, 7. 

 15th November to 15th February, 65, 66. 

 December to 1st February, 65. 

 In the autumn, 25. 

 For female lobsters, recommended : — 

 1st March to 1st April, 9. 

 May and June, 57. 

 1st July to 15th August, 31. 

 Local, Difficulty in enforcing, 25, 28, 29. 

 Not necessary, 2, 3, 7, 8, 13, 15, 27, 38, 40, 45, 46, 48, 53, 56. 

 Observed at Hawxley, 39. 



at N. Sunderland, 32, 33. 



Natural, for Crabs and Lobsters, on account of bad [weather, 3, 7, 8, 17, 19, 



34, 42, 46, 55, 57, 60. 



on account of fishing for other fish, 3, 



7, 9, 13, 17, 21, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 

 41, 43, 47, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55. 

 For Lobsters in Norway, 24, 25. 

 Coastguard should enforce law, 9. 

 Colley, Jameson, Evidence of, 42. 

 Collins, Richard, Evidence of, 9, 12. 

 Conder, Rev. A., Evidence of, 64. 

 Cooper, Thomas, Evidence of, 60. 

 Cornish, T., Evidence of, 13. 

 Cornish crabs are good, 27. 



lobsters are bad, 27. 



Cowper, Harrison, Evidence of, 44. 



Matthew, Evidence of, 43. 



Crabs : 



Bait for, 4, 12, 14, 22, 23, 37, 42, 44, 46, 50, 52, 54, 56, 60. 



Berried (see " Berried crabs "). 



Black, 45, 63, 64. 



Boiling of, 5, 9, 24, 27, 42, 44, 50, 58, 59, 60, 61, 67. 



Breeding of (see " Crabs, spawning of"). 



Bury themselves in the winter, 23, 38, 46, 50, 57. 



Casting their shell, 1, 2, 3, 9, 18, 22. 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39 s 41, 42, 43, 



44, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, CO, 63, 66, 67. 

 Colour of, varies with the ground, 56, 64. 

 Crawl best after a storm, 19, 48, 50, 54, 58. 



least before a storm, 16, 17. 



Caught best at night, 17, 3/. 



in warm rainy weather, 7. 



hot weather, 17. 



thick water, 65. 



after a storm, 19, 48, 50, 54, 58. 



- least in frosty weather, 38, 60. 

 east winds, 16, 48. 



— on sand, 2, 3, 62. 



in rocks and stones, 2, 5, 21, 36, 39; 41, 48. 



Decrease in numbers:— Selsea, 7, 66 ; Sidmouth, 7 ; Polperro, 8, 22; Polruan, 

 8,23; St. Ives, 8; Falmouth, 8, 10, 1.1 ; St. Mawes] 

 9, 10, 11, 12; Lizard, 10; Durgan, 12, 13; Land's 

 End, 14; Penzance (inshore), 13; Penberth, 17; 

 Prussia Cove, 17; Cadgwith, 19, 20; East Looe, 

 20, 21 ; London, 24, 25 ; Southport, 30, 31 ; North 

 Sunderland, 32 ; Craster, 33, 34 ; Cullercoats. 35, 37, 



39, 40 ; Newbiggin, 36 ; Hawxley, 38 ; Whitby' 



40, 41,42; Staithes, 41, 42; Robin Hood's Bay] 

 43, 44; Scarborough, 44, 45, 46 ; Bridlington, 50; 

 Prawle, 53, 54 ; Plymouth, 55 ; Budleigh Salter- 

 ton 59 (shes and inshore), 60. 



