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Seaside town — wonderful, fish brought back by trap (5,8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

great yarmouth

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'trap' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'seaside town wonderful fish brought back by' is the wordplay.
'seaside town' becomes 'yarmouth'.
'wonderful fish' becomes 'taerg' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'brought back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'taerg' backwards is 'great'.
'yarmouth' put after 'great' is 'GREAT YARMOUTH'.

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(Another definition for great yarmouth that I've seen is " Norfolk seaside resort".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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