gO FISHES AND FISHERIES OF THE IRISH SEA. 
Date. Coa Duration of “Bates and qumber of 
other Flukes. fish taken, 
oth Sept., 1898...Entrance Ribble Estuary 14 hours soa US cen A 
15th Sept., 1898 ..Nelson Buoy .. 2% hours +» 547 .-. 679 
24th Nov., 1899 - Barrow Channel ... I hour Sot GLa nae eee 
23rd Dec., 1899 .- 3 ... I hour Be itcwitose eis) 
19th Feb., 1goo... 96 pee OUT or) 280% | 207, 
Nore. —A very large proportion of the Flukes taken were about Hb. each, and many were 
under that weight. The following two records are also instructive :— 
November 21st, 1894.—Mr. Eccles, our head bailiff, went on board a small inshore 
Morecambe boat which was fishing just outside our boundary line, off the Mersey, with a full 
7-inch mesh, and saw taken with this net, in about 20 minutes, 2 cwt. of plaice. 
June 13th, 1893.—At the bottom end of the Horse Channel, in a drag in which the net 
was down 1 hour and 2 minutes, with a trawl net of 7-inch mesh and 25-feet beam, 256 Ibs. of 
fish were taken, principally plaice. Members of the Committee, and Liverpool fish salesmen 
and merchants, newspaper representatives, and others witnessed this haul. 
VI. Results of afew hauls with experimental beam trawl net, 7-inch mesh, showing 
that the 7-inch mesh will take Haddock. 
Number 
Length of Duration (or weight) 
Date. Trawl Beam. of Drag. Locality. of Haddock. 
Feet. Hours. Lbs. 
ROLn NOV.) LOOR wee 20 es i) lorse) Channel =) 330 
M5th Jans, 1894 =2 Dies sé ip Ge 50 39 270 
23rd July, 18096 25 1}... Formby Channel Entrance ... 47 
12th June, 1897 25 2 ... Off Mersey Bar a 186 
14th June, 1897 25 2 Fe 35 114 
15th June, 1897 25 i) i a 69 
26th July, 1897 25 I 4 5 eft: 60 
goth Sept., 1897 25 14 Nelson Buoy ae 42 
13th Sept., 1897 25 1} Off Ribble Estuary ee AOF: 
20th Oct., 1897 25 2 Blackpool fe 44 
18th Nov., 1897 25 I Seaward Entrance to Rock 
Channel ae eo? 
22nd Mar., 1808 25 4 17 miles W.S.W. from 
Black Combe ee ESS 
gth Sept., 1898 25 14 Off Ribble Estuary Soe 71 
22nd Nov., 1898 25 1}... Entrance Queen’s Channel, 
Mersey .- 448 
Nore.—The 7-inch mesh will take haddock of 1lb, in weight, 
