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lout 1 male was taken in the Moray Firth, at a distance of 114 miles, the apparent 

 mean rate being 3-9 miles. This tish, caught on 26th December, off Banff, was 

 " ripe," as was also a large female taken south-east of Aberdeen-, on 17th 

 February 1913. A male, caught off Abeideen on 16th February, was "partly 

 spent " ; it measured 32-5 to 348 cm. ; another female, measuring 59 to 59-8 cm., 

 caught on 14th February, 37 miles to the north-east, off Tod Head, was " spawn- 

 ing." 



Altogether, within 12 months of lil)erati()ii, 62 fishes, or 84-9 per cent, of the 

 total recaptured, were again caught, viz. 11 males (84'6 per cent, of all males 

 recaptured) and 51 females (85 per cent.). The position of capture was ascer- 

 tained for all, except 2 females ; 15 had migrated to the north and east, 18 to the 

 north and west, 3 to the south and east, and 24 to the south and west. 



Of the remaining 11 fish, 6, 5 females and 1 male, were recaptured in 1913, viz. 

 3 in March, 1 each in July, September, and November. Two of the females, taken 

 in March, were recaptured to the north-east, 1 in the Moray Firth, and the other 

 east of the Orkneys, distances of 130 and 173 miles, showing a mean rate of travel 

 per 10 days of 3-5 and 4-5 miles respectively ; 2, a male and a female, were got to 

 the north and west, at distances of 22 and 32 miles, the latter being in the Firth of 

 Forth ; 2 females were recaptured to the south and east, 1 at a distance of 16 miles, 

 and the other, offshore, at 96 miles distant. Five, 1 male and 4 females, were 

 caught in 1914, one in March, 3 in April, and 1 in May ; three had gone north- 

 wards for distances of from 11 to 109 miles, and 2 migrated north-west for dis- 

 tances of 5 and 25 miles respectively. 



