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Notes on a Fishing Voyage to the Barents Sea 

 in August, 1907. 



By 

 George T. Atkinson, 



Assistant at the Lowestoft Laboratory. 



IF-ifh Plate IV and three figures in the Text. 



Chiefly with the object of obtaining material from which comparisons 

 of an intact plaice population with that at present existing in the 

 North Sea might be made, I undertook, in August, 1907, a voyage in a 

 commercial steam trawler to the new fishing grounds in the " White 

 Sea."* 



As this area was only exploited commercially by trawlers for the 

 first time in 1905, an exceptional opportunity was afforded for the 

 study of an accumulated stock of plaice unaffected by the influence of 

 man. 



To Mr. F. 0. Hellyer, who kindly arranged the voyage for me in the 

 s.s. Roman, of the Imperial Steam Fishing Company, Hull, and to 

 Captain W. Leighton, through whose co-operation I was enabled to 

 measure and examine over four thousand plaice, my heartiest thanks 



* Generally so mis-named. Very little trawling has taken place within the White Sea 

 proper, nor has it proved profitable. 



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