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THE ZOOLOGIST
steam trawlers go far afield, and their produce may have been acquired a long distance from home; but there are others which make their captures nearer home, and, by the exercise of due caution, a shrewd guess may be formed, and often accurate information obtained as to the locality of their origin.
My object in writing is to show how very interesting to an ichthyologist such a place as the Lowestoft fish-wharf is, and to express my regret that there is now, to my knowledge, nobody living there who takes an interest in the subject. Were such the case, I am convinced that in a few years we should have a much more accurate knowledge of the fish-fauna of the seas washing our shore than we have at present.
