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(Wake). "On October 7th, 1904," writes Mr. Dutt, "an example 

 between 10 ft. and 11 ft. long, and estimated by Mr. G. Barbor, 

 the fish merchant, to weigh between 36 and 40 stone, was 

 brought in by a steam-trawler." Very rarely travels up the 

 Waveney, but in my recollection two have been taken on 

 Breydon, which joins that river. Suckling records one taken at 

 Beccles in 1733 ; weight 11 stone 2 lb. ; length 7 ft. 8 in. 

 T. E. Gunn recorded one in 1866, an example taken off the 

 Suffolk coast weighing 156 lb.; length 12 ft. 2 in. A 7-stone 

 example taken in a trawler at Aldeburgh. 



Blue Shark (Carcharias glaucus). — Lowe, on the authority 

 of Dr. Hele, of Aldeburgh, records the capture of one at that 

 place : "it was carefully verified by him " (Nor. N. S.). 



Tope (Galeus vulgaris). — Occasionally entangled in Herring- 

 nets. I obtained one at Lowestoft in 1890. Have seen it 

 washed up dead near Gorleston, having been, undoubtedly, 

 thrown out from the Herrings. 



Porbeagle (Lamna comubica). — This is the commonest of the 

 larger North Sea Sharks, and the most frequently taken in the 

 Herring-nets which, in its struggles, it most woefully entangles 

 and destroys. Mr. Dutt informs me that he has seen several 

 landed at Lowestoft, but it seemed so frequent that he did not 

 trouble to " note " the dates of occurrences. He had heard of 

 others also taken. 



[White Shark (Carcharias lamia). — There is a reference to 

 a White Shark in Palmer's ' Perlustration of Great Yarmouth 

 (vol. iii. p. 400). Stated to have been taken off Kessingland, near 

 Lowestoft. It is stated to have had eight rows of teeth, and 

 weighed a ton. Wake also makes mention of a White Shark at 

 Southwold, under the name of Carcharias vulgaris. Against 

 these records it would be well to be guided by Day ( ' British 

 Fishes,' vol. ii. p. 289), who states : " Although the White 

 Shark (Carcharias lamia) has been admitted into works on 

 British Fishes, evidence is deficient that it has been taken off 

 our coasts. Grew .... remarked that it is sometimes found 

 on the Cornish coast ; Low, on hearsay that it was found off the 

 Orkneys, but no descriptions appear to be extant from a British 

 specimen. I have therefore omitted it." My own impression is 

 that Palmer's Shark was a Basking Shark (Selache maxima), 



