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six hundred of them Scotch and three hundred Yarmouth boats, 

 now mostly steamers. The old sailing craft are becoming things 

 of the past, owners having a great difficulty in securing crews to 

 man them. Mackerel have been very freely taken with the 

 Herrings, as have ' Horse-Mackerel,' which have been over- 

 abundant. 



" You ask me about Salmon caught at sea. I know of one 

 of about 16 lb., being landed here in 1907 or 1908 by a steam 

 trawler, that had been taken in the trawl-net, and another 

 brought in by a steam drifter of 12|- lb. weight, which had rolled 

 itself up in the herring-nets." 



Among the more interesting crustaceans that have come 

 to hand may be mentioned a Sowerby's Hippolyte (Hippolyte 

 spinus), a small, sturdy species with an extraordinary develop- 

 ment of the rostrum, which reminds one of a cock's comb ; so 

 conspicuous is the little fellow, and so rarely found by our 

 shrimpers, that its appearance is almost always noted by them 

 when it occurs. 



In May I secured a large pincer-claw of an Edible Crab with 

 but one chela, and this the free-moving one, which, having no 



Malformed Pincer-Claws. 



opposing point to close against, entirely precluded the possibility 

 of this half nipper being of any use to its owner. On July 

 25th a large pincer-claw of the same species was handed to me 



