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EFFECT or .TRAWLING ON SHELL—FISHES.
.
“
contained embryoS in a thin capsule nearly an inch in diameter,
were
condition,and are now in the University
These mussèls occur in deep water, and often form large masses
bound together by the threads of the byssus or ‘beard,’ and:
are quite as frequently drawn up by the liners on their books
on their particular ground. Moreover, some of the liners for
years used to bring quantities close inshore and deposit them
the rocks, thinking to create a bed of horse—mussels, but
"disappeared. Not a trace remains of the many
tons of horsemussels thus transplanted, except an occasional and solltaïy
small example in a chink of the rocks, perhaps an inshore and
'
last surviving descendant of the transplanted shell-shes. The
living whelks were generally entire, those (Fusus) having the
rare
anemone
(Hormathz'a the ‘ necklet ’) adhering externally,
being in perfect condition, just as the much more delrcatedeadê
Natiod, overgrown
with sponge, and tenanted by a hermit crab,
often came up uninjured.
Masses of the Spawn both of the
great whelk and Fusus are frequently brought up by the trawl,
’
but much of these is uninjured on again reaching the water
:
_
Even on great stretches of sand, in which many shell—shes
‘
‘
abound, comparatively few bival-ves are interfered with, s1nce
they are, buried more or less under the surface, and affordhttle
.
hold tO the ground—rope.
The molluscan fauna of muddy
g1—ound,is also inconspicuous in regard to injury, the smaller
:f01ms,which are sometimes numerous, escaping ent1relyA
storm dislodgeS ”those on sandy
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than years of continual _trawling. The
theÏ Water; and
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EFFECT or .TRAWLING ON SHELL—FISHES.
.
“
contained embryoS in a thin capsule nearly an inch in diameter,
were
condition,and are now in the University
These mussèls occur in deep water, and often form large masses
bound together by the threads of the byssus or ‘beard,’ and:
are quite as frequently drawn up by the liners on their books
on their particular ground. Moreover, some of the liners for
years used to bring quantities close inshore and deposit them
the rocks, thinking to create a bed of horse—mussels, but
"disappeared. Not a trace remains of the many
tons of horsemussels thus transplanted, except an occasional and solltaïy
small example in a chink of the rocks, perhaps an inshore and
'
last surviving descendant of the transplanted shell-shes. The
living whelks were generally entire, those (Fusus) having the
rare
anemone
(Hormathz'a the ‘ necklet ’) adhering externally,
being in perfect condition, just as the much more delrcatedeadê
Natiod, overgrown
with sponge, and tenanted by a hermit crab,
often came up uninjured.
Masses of the Spawn both of the
great whelk and Fusus are frequently brought up by the trawl,
’
but much of these is uninjured on again reaching the water
:
_
Even on great stretches of sand, in which many shell—shes
‘
‘
abound, comparatively few bival-ves are interfered with, s1nce
they are, buried more or less under the surface, and affordhttle
.
hold tO the ground—rope.
The molluscan fauna of muddy
g1—ound,is also inconspicuous in regard to injury, the smaller
:f01ms,which are sometimes numerous, escaping ent1relyA
storm dislodgeS ”those on sandy
m016
than years of continual _trawling. The
theÏ Water; and
3806
theShellSheSdon0tsuel@@nSplcuousmiuly bytheuseof
ÎtheordïalÿtmWïafætsuGlentlyplamatStAndœws