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IN a note in NATURE of May 11, 1927, attention was directed to the unpublished reports of Dr. James Murie on the Thames Estuary fisheries. Before his death in 1925, Dr. Murie had published the first part of his “Report on the Fisheries of the Thames Estuary”, containing Sections 1 to 3 and the greater part of Section 4. The second part, consisting of a large folio volume now in the Southend Public Library, was not published. Part of this is in galley proof, but the sixth section is in manuscript, and was written probably between 1895 and 1912. It was found in 1926 in an outhouse of Dr. Murie's cottage at Leigh, and consisted of a sodden mass of paper. The sheets were carefully separated, dried, and trans-soribed by the Borough Librarian, Mr. Pollitt, and a digest of this unpublished section is embodied in a long article by Mr. A. Laurence Wells, published in the Southend Standard (Jan. 7 and 14, 1931), entitled “Special Thames Estuary Fisheries”. The matter is full of interest and covers a wide field. It consists mainly of detailed notes on the various fisheries in the Thames Estuary, especially those relating to the Leigh fishermen, and embraces the history of many of the older industries and the methods employed, both ancient and modern. These carefully collected data about each individual fishery are of historical value. Many of the methods are now obsolete, but most of the fisheries themselves are still flourishing.
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Fisheries of the Thames Estuary. Nature 129, 341 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129341a0
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