FISHES ever tench and roach are found together, the former are always large, and there are few young ones to be seen ; where there are no other fish, the young tench are numerous, and they never attain to a large size. The variety known as golden tench {T. aurea) has in recent years been introduced into various parts of the county, and seems to have fairly established itself.
- I02. Lake Bream. /Ihramis brama, Linn.
Ouse and Brandon rivers ; very abundant and attaining a large size. Yare. — jf. H. G, ' I have twice known a bream, of 7 lb. weight, taken in the Wensum, at Cossey. One of these specimens was : length 25-^ inches, depth 8^ inches, thickness 3^ inches, weight 7 lb. I oz. The large bream bear the local name of " bellows " in the neigh- bourhood of Norwich.' — J. H. G. Stradsett Lake, 5^ lb. — Mr. RUst, Sep- tember 1st, 1 88 1. Mr. Norman, of Yarmouth, tells me he caught a bream which weighed 8 lb. 1 2 oz. One weighing 11^ lb. was caught in a pond at Beeston Regis, on June 17th, 1879. (J fish, very dark in colour, 26 inches long, 10 inches deep, and 26 inches in girth. A P taken at Thorpe on the Yare, June 23rd, weighed 8f lb., and measured 23 inches long, and 19^ inches in girth. — T. S. The hybrid with Leuciscus erythrophthalmus, known as the Pomeranian bream, Leuciscus buggenhagii, Cuv. & Val, has been found in Surlingham Broad. — Mr. Mills. ' One taken at Cossey, upwards of 4 lb. in weight, is now in the Norwich Museum.' — Lubbock.
- I03. White Bream, yibramis blicca,Bloch.
Norfolk Broads. — Lubbock.
- I04. Bleak. Alhurnus lucidus, Heck. &
Kner. Very abundant in ditches at North Woot- ton. I have seen some which were taken in the Ouse, below Denver sluice, at low water. Though probably occurring in other parts of Norfolk, these are the only localities in which I have any record of their having been taken. Gaywood River ; 1878.
- I05. Loach. Nemachilus barbatula, Linn.
' Not gregarious or abundant, but found in the smaller streams, wherever stones afford a lurking place.' — Lubbock. MALACOPTERYGII
- io6. Salmon. Salmo salar, Linn.
Yarmouth. ' Small ones have been very rarely taken in the mackerel nets'. — Paget. Sir T. Browne observes : ' Salmon no common fish in our rivers, though many were taken in the Ouse ; in the Bure, or north river ; in the Waveney, or south river ; in the Norwich river but seldom, and in the winter. But four years ago, fourteen were taken at Trowse Mill at Christmas, whose mouths were stuck with small worms, or horse leeches, no bigger than fine threads. Most of our salmon have a recurved piece of flesh in the end of the lower jaw, which, when they shut their mouths, deeply enters the upper, as Scaliger hath noted in some.' Of late years, the salmon seems to have disappeared from the Norfolk coasts. The only instance of which I have any record, is one which was caught in a flooded meadow at Lakenham, about December ist, 1873. This was shown by Mr. Gurney to Dr. Gunther, who pronounced it beyond doubt a true salmon. It has been presented by Mr. Birkbeck to the Norwich Museum. Mr. Gurney says this is the first Norfolk salmon he has seen. Mr. Southwell informs me that one was taken on January 15th, 1869, below the New Mills, which weighed 15 lb., and is now in the possession of Mr. C. J. Greene, Norwich. On January 29th, 1869, he saw one in the Norwich fish market weighing l lb., which was taken by some boys in the flooded meadows at Trowse. And on February 6th, 1884, a male kelt, measuring 37 inches, and weighing 13 lb., was taken, under similar circumstances, in a ditch on Trowse Common. One caught with fly, by Mr. G. F. Buxton, in the Stoke river, weighed 6 lb., May 20th, 1897. ^- I^^i^- ton had it preserved for the Norwich Museum. — T. S. 'One 13^ lb. taken in draw-net at Gor- leston. May '17th, 1898.' — T. S.
- ']. Sea Trout. Salmo trutta, Linn.
Frequently caught in the Ouse and Estuary. In the Bure and Waveney. — Lubbock. Mr. Stevenson reports that one was taken with rod and line at Lyng Mills, March, 1862. It weighed 15 lb., and was 31 inches in length. Another taken at the same place soon afterwards weighed 10 lb. 211
