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A Note on the Theory of a Dwarf Race of Lobsters on the Norfolk Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Michael Graham
Affiliation:
Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft

Extract

The evidence points strongly to the effect that Sheringham fishes the same race of lobsters as ports farther north. The most likely explanation of the smaller average size of the lobsters at Sheringham, which is shown to be due to abundance of small and rarity of large, is that it is in some way natural, and not due to fishing. A neat theory to fit the facts is Meek's, based on the position of Sheringham downstream in the main current system.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1949

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Meek, , Alexander, , 1925. Experimental legislation with reference to the crab and lobster fisheries of the East Coast of Britain. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., Vol. 13, pp. 755–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar