THE ZOOLOGIST 
No. 810.—December. 1908. 
SOME FISH-NOTES FROM GREAT YARMOUTH 
FOR 1908. 
By Artruur H. Patterson. 
It was with regret that I had to report last year (Zool. 1907, 
p- 460) a want of help from the local shrimpers because of the 
difficulties they experienced in not only procuring a living, but 
in manipulating boats and nets owing to the unpropitious con- 
ditions of wind and weather. The present spring and summer 
were made as notoriously blank for me by reason of the remark- 
able ease with which these men captured large quantities of 
‘Pink Shrimps,” 2. e. Ring-horned or AXsop’s Prawns (Pandalus 
annulicornis), the ‘‘ sheerness ’’ (clearness) of the water, and the 
striking dearth of curious and even common species of fish and 
crustaceans. 
The shrimping season began very early, the catchers having 
had a most trying winter, for their boats, owing to the enor- 
mously increased number of Herring-luggers fishing out of the 
port from September-end to nearly Christmas-time, have to be 
hauled out and laid by until the end of the Herring harvest. 
They were wont in the old more leisurely days, before ‘ cran- 
ning” the Herrings came into vogue, to go to the fish-wharf to 
tell” (count) Herrings, to go occasional trips on the luggers, 
or to wedge themselves for the slow season into other congenial, 
if unskilled, occupations. But ‘‘cranning”’ altered the pursuits 
of others besides themselves. Fortunately, from causes which I 
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