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months it is further assumed that the amounts taken 

 vary in a similar manner to those represented in the above 

 table, since causes similar to those operating in the Central 

 Division affect the monthly yield in the Northern and 

 Southern Divisions. If, then, the amount taken in those 

 districts in October be known, it becomes possible to con- 

 struct a table showing the yearly take. The following 

 table, compiled from information supplied by the fishery 

 officers, shows approximately the amount taken in that 

 month from the beds in the districts referred to. 



Table II. — Showing the number of Cocklers and the 

 Amount of Cockles taken in October, 1899, in the 

 Northern and Southern Divisions : — 



No account is taken in the above table of the small 

 amount of fishing which goes on on the southern side of 

 Morecambe Bay. It has been stated above that the 

 cockling here is very irregular. Mr. Ascroft informs me 

 that in 1861 and 1862 as many as twenty carts, with four 

 cocklers to each, from Bolton-le-Sands, fished regularly on 



