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observe and to gather together interesting facts in relation to 

 local marine fishes ; but beyond that, and the compilation of one 

 or two lists, little systematic recording of rare species, and of the 

 economy and changes of fish-life, has been done. 



The fresh-water species have been fairly well attended to, 

 their habits and habitats being alike known to anglers, river 

 poachers, and others : the first are ever-increasing in number, 

 and angling clubs in the neighbourhood are legion ; the second, 

 thanks to the energies of the Yare and Bure Preservation Society, 

 have had their day, or nearly so ; and if the Yarmouth district 

 angling fraternity would give greater support, pecuniary and 

 otherwise, to the Society, poaching would become an unknown 

 quantity. Tons of fresh-water fishes have from time to time been 

 netted — somewhat audaciously too — yet the rivers and broads 

 still fairly abound in certain species. The owners and tenants 

 of the Broadlands have found it to their interest to see that the 

 races of coarse fish have not been unduly depleted. 



New fresh-water species have not been, except in one or two 

 instances, introduced, and these were failures. Notably a consign- 

 ment of Trout, Salmo fario, turned into the Filby Broad (where 

 they had access to the Ormesby and Kollesby Broads), and the 

 Black Basse, Centropristes atrarius. A few of the former attained 

 some size, almost the last survivor being hooked in 1896; and 

 anglers were glad to be rid of the latter voracious species. Neither 

 increased their numbers, and both are now virtually extinct. 



The Norfolk coast-line is a favourite rendezvous for certain 

 migratory species, Herrings to wit ; the bays and shallows of the 

 Norfolk Estuary (the Wash) form a very suitable breeding 

 ground for many species, but the seaboard in the more immediate 

 neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth is not, in my estimation, 

 favourable to the habits of a great majority, the flat, sandy, 

 shifting nature of the bottom affording but little shelter, although 

 in the finer months it abounds in Crustacea and Entomostraca. 

 The abundance of Crustacea may be imagined when some eighty 

 Shrimp-boats, carrying a man and boy or two men each, working 

 dredges, and in some cases small trawls with a beam of from 

 twelve to fourteen feet, find their owners remunerative employ- 

 ment from March to end of September. Their catches are princi- 

 pally the iEsop's Prawn, Pandalns annulicomis (known locally as 



