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Duddon Sands. 



Roe Island, 

 Waded Scar. 



Baiclifi; 

 West Hollow. 



Grange over Sands 

 Hnmi)hreyHead. 



Ulverstone Chan- 

 nel, WestHollow. 



Barrow Channel. 



Grange over Sands 



Grange over Sands 

 Humphrey Head. 



Roe Island, 

 Rusebuck Scar. 



Grange over Sands 

 Waded Scar. 



Morecambe Chan- 

 nel, deep water. 



Barrow Docks. 



Hnmphrey Head. 



2.^-2^ 



2i 



2i 2i 



2-2J 



2^-2f 



2i-2g 



U-2i 



2^-2| 



2 2J 



U-2| 



2i-3 



U-21 



10 spent. 

 7 spent. 



9 spent. 



11 spent. 



12 spent. 



7 immature. 



3 female) 



1 male f immature. 



very 



I female, ova "12 m. 



II immature. 



3 female, ova "1 m. 



7 immature. 



4 female, ova "1 m. 



8 immature. 



9 female, ova "1 m. 

 3 immature. 



all 



2 female 1 



1 male y. . 

 r .^ immature. 



8 female ) . , 



f. , } immature. 

 5 male j 



10 Empty. 



1 A little mud. 



6 Empty. 



1 Emjity, 



8 Sand and spores. 



9 Emi)ty, 2 Vege- 

 table debris. 



7 Empty. 5 Vege- 

 table debris. 



7 P^mpty. 

 12 Empty. 



10 Empty, 2 Vege- 

 table debris. 



4 Empty, 6 Vege- 

 table debris. 



10 Empty, 2Vege- 

 table debris. 



11 Emi)ty, 1 Vege- 

 table debris. 



8 Emi)ty. 



Sand, mud and 

 A'egetable debris. 



Our mussel fisheries, valuable as they are, might, we 

 have no doubt, be made still more valuable by the intro- 

 duction of some artificial cultivation. Our coast waters are 

 w^ell supplied at present with mussel seed (the free-swiming 

 embryos), they are found year after year settling down on 

 all sorts of suitable and unsuitable submerged objects, and 

 many millions of them every year perish miserably for 

 want of a little looking after. As was recommended in 

 last year's report, simple stakes (bouchots without wattling) 

 should be erected in likely spots, not for the purpose of 

 taking the place of the beds — which are probably better 

 suited on the whole to our local conditions than the 



