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The Migration of the Anchovy. 
Summary of a Report to the Council of the Association. 
By 
J. VT. Cunningham, WWi.A. 
Yue facts gathered up to the present time with regard to the 
occurrence of anchovies in the English Channel are briefly as 
follows : 
In November, 1889,* large numbers of anchovies were reported 
to have been taken at Dover in the drift-nets used for sprat fishing. 
During the same month also numbers were taken by the sprat 
fishermen in Torbay, in seines.. 
In the following November, 1890, numbers of anchovies were 
brought in at Plymouth by pilchard fishermen, fishing to the south of 
the Hddystone. On November 26th one boat took 584, and on Novem- 
ber 27th one took 500. During this autumn nothing was heard of 
anchovies at Torquay, and Mr. Matthias Dunn could not obtain any 
at Mevagissey. 
The only anchovies brought to the Laboratory in the autumn of 
1891 were caught on November 9th. On this occasion twenty-one 
fish were counted. No anchovies were reported from Torquay. 
Anchovy nets purchased by the Association were shot twenty- 
four times between September, 1891, and April, 1892, and thirty- 
one anchovies were taken, the largest catch being twenty on 
November 20th. 
During the winter 1892-3 the number of anchovies obtained 
from fishing boats at Plymouth was sixty-one, of which number 
thirty-three were caught in November and December. ‘The Associa- 
tion’s nets were shot six times in November and December, and five 
anchovies were taken, all at one time (November 28th). 
During the winter 1893-4 only eight anchovies were obtained 
from the Plymouth fishermen. The nets of the Association were 
* This Journal, vol. i, N.S., p. 334. 
