The Surrounding Sea - Gower - page 121

FIG 64. The burrowing or masked crab, a common animal of the sandy seafloor and beaches. (Margaret Hodge)
All these operations are licensed by the South Wales Sea Fisheries Committee, under whose jurisdic-
tiontheseareasofseabedfall,butlocalnaturalistsareseriouslyconcernedthatthefishinginterestsarebe-
inggiven precedence overconservation issues, andlegal action iscurrently being proposedat aEuropean
level to stop the dredging.
FISH AND FISHERIES
Fish species recorded from Carmarthen Bay include solenette Buglossidium luteum , sole Solea solea ,
plaice Pleuronectes platessa and dab Limanda limanda . Some of these were recorded by Isaac Hamon,
who noted that 'along this coast there are these sort of fish taken or to be taken (viz) Salmon, hering,
suen, cod, mackrell, plais, millet, sole, flooke, flawnders, Thornback, Skate, Whiting, Turbut, hawk,
Conggereeles, bowman, bream.' Some 300 years later inshore fisheries are still well established in the