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Whitebait were defined by Alan Davidson (1979) as ‘the fry of various clupeoid fish, notably the herring and the sprat, and often mixed together’; most authorities now state that they are the fry of the sprat alone. They are caught from boats working in pairs with a fine net stretched between them. The season was considered to be March-August, but now fishing is discouraged when there are immature fish in the river, a period which lasts approximately from June until October.