MU. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE SMELT IN NOUFOLK W.\TEUS, 481 
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FURTHER XOTES OX THE SMELT FISHERY 
IX THE XORFOLlv WATERS. 
Rv Thomas Southwell, F./C.S. 
Read 2 ’]th March, 1888 . 
In Xovember, 188G, I had the honour of reading before this Society 
some notes on the Smelt Fishery in the Norfolk Watt;rs, which 
appeared in the pages of our Transactions {ante p. 338 et 
Ouite recently I have received, througli the kindness of a friend, 
a paper on the same subject, with which I was not at that time 
acquainted. It is written by Mr. Charles W. Harding of Lynn, 
and appears to have boon contributed as a prize essay to tlio 
International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883, and wa.s awarded 
a “diploma.” It is therefore probably published in the volume 
of prize essays issued by “ the Commissioners appointed by her 
Majesty’s Government,” by whom, upon the recommendation of 
the jury, the diploma was awarded ; but never having seen the 
volume in question, this is, of course, only conjecture. Coming 
from a person so well ac([uainted with the fisheries of the estuary 
of the river Ouse as Mr. Harding, this essay is of great value as 
showing the present state of the Smelt Fishery in that locality ; 
and his original observations are so interesting, that I need make 
no apology for asking the permission of our Society to allow me to 
communicate their substance, for the purpose of placing them on 
record where they will be accessible to us all. The lamentable 
disclosures contained in Mr. Harding’s essay are a practical 
comment upon the wise regulations quoted as prevailing in the 
same river three hundred yeai-s ago, in a paper I read before this 
Society {ante p. 445). 
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