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point, 50 per cent, in March. Dabs are known to spawn, to some 

 extent, in inshore waters, though I have little experience of their doing 

 so in Devonshire bays. 



Other marketable flat-fish require, unfortunately, but little con- 

 sideration. Soles are represented by only two small specimens. Merry 

 soles were never taken, though I believe that they sometimes, if not 

 often, enter the bay. Flounders appear to be permanent inhabitants, 

 or at any rate are to be taken in small numbers throughout the year. 

 Xo turbot were taken, and only one brill, of unsaleable size, was 

 observed. Whiting, tub gurnard and grey gurnard appear to be not 

 only scarce, but too small to be worth catching. The same remark 

 applies almost equally to thornbacks, during the months when the rays 

 were recorded. No other kinds of ray were observed. 



TEIGNMOUTH BAY. 



LIST OF HAULS. 



The trawling ground in this bay lies roughly parallel to the shore at 

 depths ranging from 5 to 10 fathoms. Our experiments were made on 

 courses which do not appear to differ from each other to such an extent 

 as to require separate definition. The ground appears to be very liable 

 to become covered with drift weed in the summer. 



