460 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Brightlingsea, Dover, Newhaven, Weymouth, Ports- 
mouth, &e.—in almost every case the scallop fishing being 
carried on during the winter months. 
Probably unrecorded or occasional scallop fishing is 
carried on at many other places, not as an independent 
industry, but to obtain bait for the lnes of a few local 
fishermen. It is certain, moreover, that much could be 
done to locate, improve and exploit beds of this useful 
shellfish if a greater demand for it arose in the future, 
either as human food or as bait for the fishing lines. 
