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Mr. Dawson tells us that the ground known as the 
‘“‘ Deposit Ground” lying between the Queen’s and Horse 
Channels, outside Burbo Bank, is also a place where young 
flat-fish congregate in large numbers, as many as 10,000 
having been obtained at a single haul of the shrimp trawl. 
During the time the fish are on this ground there is a 
creat deal of trawling for shrimps with the usual des- 
truction of immature flat-fish. 
We have drawn up from the statistics a series of tables 
showing the takes of fish for each month in the year in 
each of 4 areas into which we have divided the ground 
trawled over, but we are of opinion that we require infor- 
mation extending over several successive years before we 
can come to reliable conclusions in regard to the move- 
ments of the fish, and consequently we shall not publish 
these tables now but retain them and add to them with the 
view of having them incorporated, when more extensive, 
in a future report. We have also “‘ taken out”’ particular 
fish—Plaice, Dab, Whiting—from the statistics and have 
drawn up tables of their distribution, as shown by the 
trawlings, in various parts of the district for each month, 
These tables also we retain for further additions, but we 
may at present draw the following tentative conclusions :— 
PuatcE—Taking the three localities (a) Horse and 
Rock Channels, (0) the Mersey estuary, and (c) Burbo and 
North Banks, we find that the biggest hauls in all three 
were in September and October, the average for the 3 or 
4 winter months (November to February) was about 100 
fish in each case, and the average for the 3 or 4 summer 
months (June to September) was about 700 in each. Very 
large hauls of young plaice (2 to 6 inches) are taken with 
the shrimp net in August in the Horse Channel and the 
Dee estuary. 
Das—In the Horse Channel the largest hauls were in 
