29 



The figures marked thus * are single hauls only, and in 

 the months left blank the pressure of police work pre- 

 vented any experimental hauls being taken. Taking the 

 results of 1894 as a whole it will be seen that there is a 

 marked increase on the number caught during the former 

 year, and they also bear out the remarks made in last 

 Report as to the months in which the greatest and 

 smallest number of fish are present on this ground. It 

 appears from the figures now before us that the number 

 of fish on this particular part of the district reaches its 

 maximum in December, and then gradually goes down 

 till the month of May, after that it begins to increase, and 

 goes on increasing till it again reaches the maximum. 



As in last year's Report we again give a comparison 

 between the numbers of fish taken on the Blackpool ground 

 and those taken in Morecambe Bay, the estuary of the 

 Mersey, and in the Ribble estuary, the areas included in 

 these districts being the same as those given in the Report 

 for 1893 at page 30. 



Each column contains the average number of fish 

 caught with the shrimp trawl, the figures marked * being 

 single hauls only. 



Mersey. Ribble. Blackpool. Moi-ecambe. 



1893. December 593 — 20889* 231 



1894. January 507 1950 8512* 131 



