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landing-nets were to be seen catching them, on the edge of Brey- 

 don, in sufficient quantities to fry. Flounders and Eels fed on 

 them gluttonously, the latter paying scant attention to the 

 worms of the " babbers," who complain of a most disastrous 

 Eel-fishing. Terns and Gulls fed bountifully on them. 



I have a strong suspicion that their presence in such vast 

 swarms on our coast accounts greatly for the very apparent 

 migration of Mackerel that set in, too. This year's Mackerel 

 fishery was so revived in consequence that something akin to the 

 old-time fishery obtained. No less than fifty luggers went out 

 after them, and great catches were made. The total catch 

 amounted to over 145 lasts, 12,000 fish going to a "last." 



Scomber thunnina. 



The largest haul of any one boat landed at one time was a 

 last. Prices varied from 12s. to £1 per hundred, of 120 fish. 

 One boat earned £150 for the two months' trips (in May and 

 June). 



Among the breeze-loving Mackerel came a few Scribbled 

 Mackerel (Scomber scriptus), Surmullet (Mullus surmuletus), and 

 some Garfish (Belone vulgaris). 



I obtained a Mackerel wholly devoid of stripings on June 27th. 

 Length, 15 in. 



Soles came into the roadstead so numerously this summer 

 that at least a dozen shrimpers substituted small trawls for the 



