Occurrence of Boar Fish

Abstract

I RECEIVED several notices of the capture of boar-fish (Caprosoper), on the south and south-east coasts of England during June last. First from Bournemouth and Weymouth, where they were found not unfrequently dead on the shore. Again, one of the Leigh “shrimpers” took about a dozen specimens in his trawl net near Sheerness, at the mouth of the Thames. Another two specimens were taken likewise in a shrimp trawl off Harwich. None of these survived, no doubt having been too long in the trawl net, which is frequently three or more hours in the water. Dead specimens of these were sent for my observation, by Mr. Andrew, the aquarium fish collector of Southend-on-Sea. He says the Essex fishermen call them red dorees, but none remember having seen them on that coast before this year.