CONTENTS, 



General Statement, .... 

 The Influence of Trawling, 

 North Sea Investigations, 

 The Hatching and Rearing of Food Fishes 

 Observations on the Food of Fishes, 

 The Cod, Saithe, and Lythe, 

 The Parasites of Fishes, . 

 The Rate of Growth of Fishes, . 

 The Invertebrate Fauna, 



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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 



I. Report on the Trawling Experiments of the "Garland," and on 

 the Fishery Statistics relating thereto. By Dr. T. Wemyss 

 Fulton, F.R.S.E., Scientific Superintendent, . . J 7 



Introductory, ....... 17 



The Moray Firth, ...... 18 



Firth of Forth, ...... 20 



Flat Fishes, ...... 22 



Round Fishes, ...... 27 



Skate and other Fishes, . . . .27 



Firth of Clyde, ...... 29 



Table A. — Showing Summary of Fish taken by the " Garland" 



in Trawling Operations in 1901, . . . .33 



Table B. — Analysis of the "Garland's" Statistics relating to 



the relative Abundance of Fish, 1901, . . .36 



Table C. — Record of Observations made on Board the " Gar- 

 land " during 1901, . . , . . 38 



A. Fish Caught, ...... 38 



B. Physical Observati(ms, . . . .52 



Table D. — Showing the Quantities of Fish caught by Line 

 within the Moray Firth (inside a Line between Dun- 

 cansby Head and Rattray Point), and the Number of 

 Shots of the Boats by which the Fish were caught, . 65 



Table E. — Total Quantities of Fish caught by Line within the 

 Moray Firth (inside a Line between Duncanshy Head 

 and Rattray Point), and the Number of Shots of the 

 Boats by which the Fish were caught, . . .72 



