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448
EFFECT or LINES ON
STAR-FISHES AND WORMS.
…
shermén in“ this respect.
The daily captures of the common—
cross—shesl by the liners amount to a great annual total,yet
such is unavoidable, and, indeed, the species is a pest tobothÎ
the liner and the shell—sh farmer.
As already said, it is
liner who ‘procures many of the smaller holothurians, and Who:
rst made us acquainted with the rarer heart—urchins andsea—
urchins (ay-, the ‘piper ’)’
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In the group
of the worms, one of the most g1gantm
Nemerteans (3 feet long’and nearly an inch broad)_has h1therto_
only come from the liner, and even the black hne—worm1s
occasi0nally caught on the hooks.
In the débris from
shing—boats “many of the rarer bristled annelids have been
procured, and serpulids, the coral—like masses of Filigmna, and
many others, come from the same method of shing. It is an
‘
interesting fact, and a
on
man’s inuence on the
inhabitants of the ocean, that neither liner nor trav°vler hasever=
captured the characteristic spoonworm (Echiums palZaszz)of
St Andrews, and that storms alone toss them in mult1tudeSon
—
…
the beach.
Food—shes, however, nd them out, and feedO
.
them in their haunts.
—
'
If we regard crab- and lobster—shing as a branch of… the
trade of the liner—and it apparently has little connect10nln
any respect with the trawler—the effect of other 1nst1uments
than the trawl in reducing the number of these an1malsls_
'
The larger forms by—and-by become rare,and
all become fewer.
There is no proof that the
‘
seriously affects either" species, but its use, close tol r00kÿ
'
_
borders …in hays, may occasionally in former days have1nterwith the traps. The books of the liner nowandthe
captureïbothspœies, and furhish many hermit—crabs
shellS,
Some of the rarer floug—taiIed f01ms(eg,
of the
;crabs (e.g., Atelecyolu8
_
,
‘
‘
'
—
_
448
EFFECT or LINES ON
STAR-FISHES AND WORMS.
…
shermén in“ this respect.
The daily captures of the common—
cross—shesl by the liners amount to a great annual total,yet
such is unavoidable, and, indeed, the species is a pest tobothÎ
the liner and the shell—sh farmer.
As already said, it is
liner who ‘procures many of the smaller holothurians, and Who:
rst made us acquainted with the rarer heart—urchins andsea—
urchins (ay-, the ‘piper ’)’
_
'
-
In the group
of the worms, one of the most g1gantm
Nemerteans (3 feet long’and nearly an inch broad)_has h1therto_
only come from the liner, and even the black hne—worm1s
occasi0nally caught on the hooks.
In the débris from
shing—boats “many of the rarer bristled annelids have been
procured, and serpulids, the coral—like masses of Filigmna, and
many others, come from the same method of shing. It is an
‘
interesting fact, and a
on
man’s inuence on the
inhabitants of the ocean, that neither liner nor trav°vler hasever=
captured the characteristic spoonworm (Echiums palZaszz)of
St Andrews, and that storms alone toss them in mult1tudeSon
—
…
the beach.
Food—shes, however, nd them out, and feedO
.
them in their haunts.
—
'
If we regard crab- and lobster—shing as a branch of… the
trade of the liner—and it apparently has little connect10nln
any respect with the trawler—the effect of other 1nst1uments
than the trawl in reducing the number of these an1malsls_
'
The larger forms by—and-by become rare,and
all become fewer.
There is no proof that the
‘
seriously affects either" species, but its use, close tol r00kÿ
'
_
borders …in hays, may occasionally in former days have1nterwith the traps. The books of the liner nowandthe
captureïbothspœies, and furhish many hermit—crabs
shellS,
Some of the rarer floug—taiIed f01ms(eg,
of the
;crabs (e.g., Atelecyolu8