80 FISHES AND FISHERIES OF THE IRISH SEA. 
The minimum sizes as recommended by the National Sea Fisheries Protection Asso- 
ciation are :— 
Brill under 12 inches in extreme length 
Lemon Soles i II ar ‘ a5 0 
Plaice or 10 ro oP ” ” 
Soles 
Turbot 
Finally, the minimum sizes recommended by the recent Parliamentary Sea-fisheries 
Committee, and adopted in the Board of Trade Bill (1900) are :— 
Turbot and Brill ae 7 ne ... 10 inches. 
” ite) bb] ” ” ” 
” 12 2 ” ” ” 
Plaice and Soles 2a BO: 300 Se Seinchess 
Even these reduced sizes are larger than in some other countries, France having 
only 5% inches for soles and plaice; Belgium, soles and plaice 7 inches, turbot and brill 9 inches; 
Denmark 9} inches for plaice, turbot and brill ; Holland 63? inches for plaice, and Germany 
8 inches for soles and plaice. But any protection is probably better than none, and as yet 
there is no legislation in this country in regard to our undersized fish. 
We now append as giving further information in regard to the working of our 
District* :— 
I. A copy of the Draft Bye-laws adopted for the Lancashire and Western Sea- 
Fisheries Committee, and now awaiting the confirmation of the Board of 
Trade. 
II. Tables showing the results of some of our series of experimental hauls as 
samples of the scientific and statistical work carried on by our fisheries 
steamer, the ‘‘ John Fell,” and by the bailiff’s sailing cutters. 
Fic. 14.—Shrimping from a Cart. 
* We hoped to have had also an appendix on the fishing implements used in the district, written by our 
friend, Mr. Robert Lamb Ascroft, of Lytham, and illustrated by photographs taken by Mr. Andrew Scott ; but 
unfortunately, Mr. Ascroft’s recent illness has interrupted that and other good work in Natural History and 
Sea-Fisheries upon which he was engaged. We are indebted to Mr. Scott for most of the photographs from 
which our illustrations are taken. 
