22 Part LIL—Twenty-fourth Annual Report 
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The vessel then proceeded to the Dornoch Firth, where some hauls 
were taken, but the catches were not as a rule very large. ‘The first was 
made on the 9th February, mostly in 10 and 12 fathoms, and it lasted 
for four hours and a half. The number of fishes caught was 1195, of 
which 942 were marketable and 253 unmarketable. Plaice were most 
numerously represented, the number being 805, of which 740 were 
marketable and 65 unmarketable ; the former consisted of 2 large, 106 
mediums, 260 thirds, and 372 fourths. The other flat-fishes included 1 
brill, 4 lemon dabs, 199 common dabs, and 166 flounders. Round-fishes 
were practically absent, being represented only by 2 small haddocks. 
The next haul was for an hour, with the small-meshed net around the 
cod-end of the otter-trawl. In the latter the number of fishes amounted 
to 277, of which 138 were marketable. The plaice numbered 240, of 
which 115 were marketable and 125 too small to be marketable. There 
were also 18 flounders and 9 small common dabs. Round-fishes again 
were represented by only 2 small, unmarketable haddocks. The third 
drag in the Dornoch Firth, in from about 43 to 12 fathoms, lasted for 
four hours and ten minutes, and the number of fishes taken was 950, the 
number marketable being 624 and the unmarketable 326. The catch 
included 788 plaice, most of them being small; 312 were too small to be 
marketable, and of the 476 marketable, 254 belonged to the fourth class, 
143 to the third, and 79 to the second (mediums). Among the flat-fishes 
were also no less than 140 flounders, while the common dabs numbered 
8. Haddocks were represented by a single unmarketable specimen, and 
there were no other round-fishes. 
Omitting the haul with the small-meshed net around the cod-end of 
the otter-trawl, the total number of fishes taken in the two ordinary 
hauls, representing eight hours and forty minutes’ trawling, was 2145, of 
which 1566 were marketable and 579 unmarketable. The particulars 
in regard to the different species of fish, marketable and unmarketable, 
are as follows :— 
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