NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 
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of the tide, hoping, with the turn of it, to draw off again. 
He is content, if he does not lose his net altogether, to come 
off with a torn net and an empty “ poke.” Sometimes the 
net is hauled in entire, but with the cod-end covered with 
Whelks, which have in the meantime been cleaning out the 
catch, leaving but the empty “ shells ” of the Shrimps therein, 
Pennant’s Swimming Crab ( Portumnus variegatas) for the 
first time, to my knowledge, was captured on Breydon in 
June, also Nika edulis came to hand freely from the shrimp 
nets in that month. 
On June 17th I obtained on Breydon a White Goby 
(Latrunculus alba), and on the same day I saw a Hooded Crow 
sitting on a Breydon rail. 
June 19th. A 3-lb. Turbot, wholly white on the upper 
surface, save for a ring of the normal colour around each eye. 
was on a fish stall. The spiny processes were entirely absent, 
and the surface of the fish felt like porcelain. 
In June and July, Breydon and the neighbouring salt 
waters were literally alive with young Herrings (“ Whitebait”) ; 
flounders and eels fed on them ravenously, to the annoyance 
of the eel-babbers. Terns and gulls also devoured them to 
repletion. And their abundance undoubtedly had something 
to do with the unusual number of Mackerel that visited our 
waters, at a period corresponding with the old and obsolete 
Mackerel fishery. 
Boat owners sent out quite a number of luggers in quest 
of the Mackerel, and some remunerative catches were made. 
Altogether some 145 lasts, 12,000 fish going to a last, were 
accounted for ; prices varying from 12s. to /i per hundred. 
One boat earned £150 for a two months’ trip (in May and 
June). 
On June 27th I obtained a 15-inch Mackerel which was 
entirely devoid of the characteristic stripings. 
July 4th. I obtained for the first time an example of 
Loligo media (a sharp-tailed Cuttle) on Breydon. I, curiously 
enough, “spotted” it entangled in the meshes of a net hung 
to dry from a mast-head when rowing by in my punt. I 
clambered aboard and secured it. to the amusement of several 
