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ducted, prefer lugworms as a bait for haddocks, in fact, 
the results shown in the above table are not in agreement 
with the general opinions of fishermen at several points 
of the Scottish coast. Both in Aberdeen district and in 
the Firth of Forth the order of preference seems to be 
lugworms, clams, mussels. On the Lancashire coast and 
in other parts of England, lugworms are preferred to 
mussels. 
Lugworms are used for baiting both long and short 
lines, the custom varying in different localities. On the 
Cheshire coast at New Brighton, at Piel, Lancashire, and on 
the coast of Northumberland, short lines are usually em- 
ployed, those of the New Brighton fishermen bearing only 
about twenty hooks. In the Aberdeen district the lines 
earry about three hundred hooks, and the Musselburgh 
fishermen employ long lines bearing as many as twelve 
to sixteen hundred hooks baited with lugworms. 
The lugworm has a faint odour and an _ ethereal 
extract proved to be attractive to certain fish, e.g., turbot 
and rockling.* It is doubtful whether this scent is suffi- 
ciently strong to play any part in attracting the fish which 
are usually caught with lugworm bait, as most of these 
fish—cod, whiting, plaice, flounder and dab—appear to 
find the bait by the sense of sight.t 
* F, Hvuaurs.—Journal Marine Biological Association, Vol. 2, 
p. 92: 
+ W. Bareson.—Journal Marine Biological Association, Vol. 1, 
p. 241. 
