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along these shores in recent years. They had given us to 

 understand that we could reckon on finding good trawling 

 grounds as far down as 250 fathoms on many of the coast banks 

 off Morocco, such as the stretch from Cape Spartel to Casa 

 Blanca, from Mogador to the bay at Agadir, and south of Cape 



Fig. 47. — Depths and Stations in the Spanish Bay. 



Juby on the inner side of the Canary Islands. We? also 

 learned that their catches chiefly consisted of hake {Merhiccius 

 vu/gaj'is), which, as a rule, made up two-thirds of the whole ; 

 soles [Solea vulgaris), and different kinds of silvery or brilliantly- 

 coloured spiny-finned fish (mostly Sparidse), which they call 

 "salmon." 



Our plan was to carry out two series of trawlings from the 

 coast banks outwards to great depths, one in the Spanish Bay 

 and one south of the Canary Islands, so as to have a general 

 idea of the fauna at diff'erent depths in different latitudes. We 



