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Monthly Reports on the Fishing in the Neighbourhood 
of Plymouth. 
By 
W. L. Calderwood, F.R.S.E. 
ES: 
Tue four charts produced in this number, showing as nearly as 
possible the positions of the various fishing boats in the neighbour- 
hood of Plymouth, are acontinuation of the series of charts already intro- 
duced in Nos. 3 and4of vol. u. They represent the conditions found 
during last September, October, November, and December, and 
complete the year’s observations. 
September —The Plymouth area is in this chart shown to be 
densely covered with fishing craft. 
A great line of mackerel boats is noticeable stretching along to the 
east side of the Eddystone. This refers, however, only to the latter 
part of the month, being most noticeable on the 26th day. The 
mackerel fishing of the early part of the month was carried on twenty 
to thirty miles south of the Eddystone, and is therefore not indicated. 
The small patch of mackerel boats shown five or six miles south of the 
Eddystone occurred on the 18th night. It is the first indication of 
the breaking up of the large massed shoals, which is shown more 
clearly in October and November. 
The whiting boats were very much scattered throughout the month 
and difficult to follow. 
The long lining or bolter fishing shown, took place only in the early 
part of the month, that shown south of the Eddystone during the first 
week, that all round the Eddystone on the 12th day. The boats 
then went along the coast of Cornwall, and at the end of the month 
were fishing off the Lizard. 
October.—The mackerel fishing during October was carried on, for 
the most part, fifteen, twenty, and by some boats thirty miles south of 
the Eddystone. Towards the end of the month, however, instead of 
travelling out of all reach as was feared, some shoals struck inshore 
again. The fishing round the Eddystone shown in the chart for this 
