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By 13 and 14 Chas. 2nd,ch. 23, if any person not an adven- 

 turer in the Fishery, shall make any Pilchards in Casks or 

 Fumathoes, to be sold or transported, except of the Adven- 

 turers, he shall forfeit the whole of their value. Also any 

 Owner or Partner embezzling the Fish, shall pay to the 

 others treble the value, and be committed to the House of 

 Correction for the space of three months. Pilchards in any 

 state may not be imported into England by Foreigners, on 

 pain of forfeiture, by 18 Chas. 2nd, ch. 2, and 9 Geo. 2nd, 

 cb. 33. 



Since the publication of the Report of 1835, I have satisfied 

 myself that the Pilchard feeds eagerly on the Mackarel Midge, 

 Motella Glauca ; and that abundance of Pilchards heavy with 

 roe, were on our Coasts in April, 1836, thus establishing the 

 fact of a vernal as well as autumnal spawning, though probably 

 not by the same individual Fishes. In the present year 1837, 

 the Fish were full of Melts and Roe, at the end of July, and 

 the first fortnight in August, chiefly perhaps through the late- 

 ness and coldness of the spring; which delayed the spawning 

 of several other kinds of Fishes. 



HERRING. C. Earengus. Jenyns, p. 434. Yarrell's Br. 

 F., vol. 2, p. 110. 



A few scattered Herrings are taken in August and Septem- 

 ber ; and in October and November, they are sufficiently 

 abundant to be an object of interest to the Fisherman. No 

 extensive Fishery, however, is carried on along the Western 

 Coasts, and none of the Fish are prepared for exportation. 



SPRAT. C. Spratlus. Jenyns, p. 435. Yarrell's Br. F., 

 vol. 2, p. 121. The young of the Herring and Pilchard are 

 by Cornish Fishermen separately termed Herring and Pil- 

 chard Sprats ; but the difference of both the latter are 

 readily allowed when the real Sprat is laid before them. 

 This Fish does not appear until the end of the year; when 

 it is found in the stomachs of Fishes, and at times is taken 

 in some abundance in Rivers within reach of the tide. That 

 they have, not been more noticed, seems to have proceeded 

 from their small size, the season of their appearance, and 

 the trreat abundance of other Fish. 



TWAITE SHAD. C. Finta. Jenyns, p. 437. Yarrell's 

 Br. F., vol. 2, p. 131. This is sparingly taken in Pilchard 

 or Herring Drift Nets, towards the close of the year. 



ALLIS SHAD. C. Alosa. Jenyns, p. 438. Yarrell's Br. 

 F., vol. 2, p. 137. Scadina, Alose, and corruptly Alewite. 

 Common but not abundant. It more frequently takes a bait 

 than others of this Genus. 



ANCHOVY. Engraulis Encrasicholus. Jenyns, p. 439. 

 Yarrell's Br. F., vol. 2, p. 140. This Fibh abounds towards 



