42 
The smelt fishery is much damaged by the practice of taking 
them in the rivers during the spawning season. Immense quan- 
tities are caught in what ought to be the close season, Avhen they 
are watery and insipid. There ought to be a strict prohibition 
against taking them whilst in the rivers. 
In Sir 4. Brownes list mention is made of spirinches,”* or 
smelt in great plenty about Lynn ; but where they have also a 
small fish called a priame, answering in taste and shape a smelt ; 
and perhajDs are but a younger sort thereof.” 
“They ascend the Norwich river as far as the ‘New Mills,’ 
where great numbers are taken every season.” — J. H. G. 
Mr. Southwell informs me that many are kept alive in tanks, 
in the Norwich fish-market until required for use. 
Fam. XII. — Esocid^. 
Esox LUCIUS (L.) Pike. 
Attains a large size in the Norfolk Broads, from 25 to 35 lbs. — 
Lubbock. 
Mr. E. E. B. Norman mentions (in “Land and Water,” 1873,) 
one taken in the Broads near Yarmouth, which weighed 36^ lbs. 
and was 54 inches long ; it was caught with a trimmer. 
Fam. XIV. — Scombresocid^. 
ScoMBRESOX SAURUS (W^alb.) Skipper. 
Yarmouth. — J. II. G. 
“Two specimens, about 16 inches long, caught October 25th, 
1844, are now in the Norwich Museum.” 
Blakeney Harbour, December 7th, 1846.— Eez;. E. W. Dowell. 
Sir I. Browne remarks, “The saurus we sometimes meet with 
young. Eondeletius confesseth it a very rare fish, somewhat 
resembling the acus or needlefish before, and mackarel behind.” 
Belone vulgaris (Flem.) Garfish. 
L 3 'un Eoads. — Mr. E. L. King. 
* Mr. Gurney adds the following note “ In Moule’s ‘ Heraldry of Fis 
‘spiering’ is given as the Dutch name for the smelt.” 
