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of a whaling station on the coasts of Ireland was detri- 

 mental to the fishing industry, it was decided to make a 

 surve}^ of the Blacksod Bay fishing grounds where it was 

 proposed to erect such a station. The latter was started 

 in 1910, while the grounds referred to were surveyed before 

 and after that date. The report by Mr. Farran^ discusses 

 the results of these operations. His conclusions are that 

 except in the small area of the bay adjoining the whaling 

 station there has been no alteration among the marine 

 Linimals or plants. Hence we possess fairly reliable 

 L'vidence that no injurious effect to the fishing industry 

 results from the establishment of a whaling station. A 

 number of well-known naturalists aided Mr. Farran in his 

 work, and the report is particularly valuable in connection 

 with the similar survey carried out further south around 

 Clare Island. 



Fishes. — In my last article (Irish Naturalist, April, 

 1910) I alluded to two reports on the fishes of the Irish 

 Atlantic slope. Four more have since been published, 

 all written by Messrs. Holt and B\Tne. One of them^ treats 

 of the very curious and little known " Rabbit fishes " or 

 Chimaeras. Three different kinds are described, viz., 

 Chimaera monstrosa, C. mirabilis and Rhinochimaera 

 atlantica. 



The next report^ contains a useful list of all the species 

 of fishes that have been recorded so far from the Irish 

 Atlantic slope by various authors. The list comprises 

 only such species which have been taken in nets beyond 

 the hundred-fathom line. There are over a hundred 

 different kinds of fishes, some of them having only been 

 captured once. 



Above this great Atlantic slope far away from the west 

 coast of Ireland we meet with a set of extremely curious 



1 Farran, G. P. — Results of a Biological Survey of Blacksod Bay, 

 Co. Mayo. Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest. , 1914 , iii. [1915]- 



2 Holt, E. W. L.. and L. W. Byrne.— Third Report on the Fishes, 

 of the Irish Atlantic Slope — the Holocephali or Chimaeras. Fisheries 

 Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1908, iv. [igioj. 



^ Holt, E. W. L., and L. W. Byrne. — Fourth Report on the Fishes 

 of the Irish Atlantic Slope.— List of Recorded Species with References. 

 Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1908, v. [1910]. 



