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steam trawlers go far afield, and their produce may have been 

 acquired a long distance from home ; but there are others which 

 make their captures nearer home, and, by the exercise of due 

 caution, a shrewd guess may be formed, and often accurate 

 information obtained as to the locality of their origin. 



My object in writing is to show how very interesting to 

 an ichthyologist such a place as the Lowestoft fish-wharf is, and 

 to express my regret that there is now, to my knowledge, nobody 

 living there who takes an interest in the subject. Were such 

 the case, I am convinced that in a few years we should have a 

 much more accurate knowledge of the fish-fauna of the seas 

 washing our shore than we have at present. 



