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in shallow water in Nanjizal Bay. At Scilly it occurs on shell- 

 gravel. On the north coast it was found by Vallentin at St. Ives 

 on a little patch of small stones in 12 fathoms, and has been 

 taken at Padstow in shallow water, and in the western extremity 

 of Fistral Bay, Newquay. Females in berry are found along the 

 south coast in March and April, and have been obtained at 

 Padstow in May. 



The Great Edible Crab, Cancer pagurus, L., is common and 

 in many places abundant round the coast and at Scilly, the 

 smaller ones among stones between tidemarks, the larger ones 

 on rocky and "scuddy" ground from shallow to deep water. 

 Cornish Crabs are not only abundant, but are prized for their 

 quality and renowned for size. In all about three hundred and 

 seventy local boats are engaged in the capture of Crabs, Lobsters, 

 and Crawfish in Cornish waters. Of these about two hundred 

 and fifty are from ports lying on the south coast to the east of 

 the Lizard, the greatest number being from Mevagissey and 

 Gorran. The distribution of the shell-fish fleet is not due to 

 any scarcity of these large Crustacea in the south-west or north, 

 but simply to the more sheltered character of the sea to the east 

 of the Lizard and the danger of fishing in an open boat in 

 turbulent water off the exposed headlands round the west and in 

 the Bristol Channel. For some years now a considerable number 

 of French decked boats of twenty to thirty tons and even more, 

 from the neighbourhood of Brest, have been profitably engaged 

 every summer in fishing for Lobster and Crab in deep waters 

 off the Cornish coast, and particularly between Scilly and the 

 Land's End. This Crab breeds all the year round. 



The Wart-covered Eurynome aspera (Pennant) is widely dis- 

 tributed round the coast and at Scilly on firm sand and gravel 

 from shallow water downwards, but is rarely found between tide- 

 marks. It is generally distributed around Plymouth (M.B.A), 

 and on a suitable bottom in 25 to 40 fathoms off Whitsand Bay 

 East. It is locally common in the waters round Mevagissey, 

 and is occasionally met with in trawl-refuse there. In Gerrans 

 Bay it is very local, but plentiful where it does occur. In Fal- 

 mouth Bay it is scarce, but after storms is cast up in Laminaria 

 stems, and has thrice been brought up in quantity in the trawl 

 in 40 to 45 fathoms some distance outside the Bay. It has 



