P'AUXA AXD FLOEA OF XOEFOLK. 
Part IV, Fishes. 
E Y John L o w e , ^1 . 1). 
Read 29th A pril, 1S73. 
Districts winch present very diverse physical conditions are 
generally found to possess a corresponding diversity in their Fauna 
and hlora, and the county of Xorfolk foniis no exception to this 
rule. I’ossessing as it does a great variety of soil, it is exception- 
ally rich m the number and rarity of forms of animal and plant 
life. Kor is it less so in the class under consideration. Of the 
total number ot fishes recorded as occurring in Great Britain, 
\ei} nearly one half are contained in the accomjJanying list, and of 
these many are of great rarity. 
The coast line extending from Yarmouth, or rather from Pake- 
field (for the natural boundary of the county would fairly include 
that part of Suflblk known under the name of “Lothingland,”) 
to the mouth of the Xene, comprises some of the most productive 
fisheries in the kingdom. The bays and shallow waters of the 
coast, and especially of the Xorfolk Estuary, form extensive breed- 
ing grounds for a great varietj' of fish, the young fry of which find 
an abundance of food in the smaller Crustacea and entomostraca 
which exist in immense profusion. 
The rivers of the more elevated parts of the county abound in 
trout, while the extensive “ broads,” and the sluggish streams of 
the fen and marshland districts teem with pike, carp, bream, perch, 
tench, Ac., and aflbrd excellent sport to the angler, as well as a 
lucrative occuivation to numbers of men who depend upon this 
kind of fishing for their maintenance. 
It is a subject of much regret that there are not better provisions 
made by law for the preservation of the young fish on our coasts. 
:Many hundreds of tons of small fry are annually taken in the 
Estuary, and sold for manure ; of these a very large proportion 
