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wholesale by the shrimp-nets, although the fishermen show the 

 most praiseworthy desire to reduce to a minimum the destruction 

 of the young of this and other food-fishes. I have seen fine 

 Soles trawled off Beckfoot. Fish of good quality are frequently 

 taken in Morecambe Bay. On the whole, however, the Sole is 

 scarcer with us than it was some years ago. Those sold in 

 Whitehaven are chiefly taken by our own boats off the coast of 

 Wigtownshire. 



LEMON SOLE. 



Solea aurantiaca, Giinth. 



The Lemon Sole arrives in the inshore waters of the English 

 Sol way towards the end of April and the beginning of May. 

 It is less abundant than the common Sole. Those which I have 

 seen netted were fishes for which we trawled in the Firth to 

 the west of Silloth. 



Order PHYSOSTOML Fam. GYPRINIDJE. 



COMMON CARP. 



Cyprinus carpio, L. 



The Carp exists only at Whin's Pond and in a few T other 

 waters to which it has been intentionally introduced. Dr. 

 Heysham wrote that in his time the largest Carp were to be found 

 in Tarn Wadalayne (or Wadling), drained in the year 1858. 

 Jefferson alludes to the same fact, stating on the authority of 

 the Carlisle Journal, that on June 24th, 1815, some men 

 employed at Armathwaite Castle ' took in Tarn Wadling two 

 Carp of extraordinary dimensions, each being about 24 inches in 

 length and 14 J inches in girth.' 1 



GUDGEON. 



Gobio jluviatilis, Flem. 



Careful inquiries have failed to bring to light any evidence of 

 the presence of the Gudgeon in the northern portion of Lake- 

 land. Mr. Hutchinson possesses a specimen caught on a recent 

 occasion in the Kent at Force Falls. This, he is disposed to 

 1 Leath Ward, p. 218. 



