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A SYSTEMATIC study has been made during the past year of the fish and invertebrates caught in the kypes or ‘fixed engines’ secured between tide marks in the upper regions of the Bristol Channel, between Avonmouth and Gloucester. During the spring of 1938, three specimens of the burbot, Lota vulgaris, were obtained. Two, measuring 9 cm. and 10.5 cm. long respectively, were caught during February in kypes at Oldbury, and the third, 11.5 cm., during March at Hallen, some eight miles nearer to the sea. These appear to be the first modern records of this fish in the West of England, although it is not uncommon in the rivers which flow into the North Sea between Durham and East Anglia and is of general distribution in northern and eastern Europe.
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LLOYD, A. Occurrence of Burbot in the Estuary of the River Severn. Nature 142, 1118–1119 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421118b0
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