of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 31 
The average numbers per hour’s trawling of the total fishes, the 
marketable and unmarketable, and of the plaice and haddocks are as 
follows :— 
Marketable. Unmarketable. Total, 
All kinds, . : 230°7 246°4 477-0 
Plaice, . ; 5 195°7 31°8 227°6 
Haddock, . ; 2°9 101°0 103°9 
They furnish a strong contrast to the corresponding figures for the 
Dornoch Firth, 
The quantity of fishes, in ewts., landed at the market as the result of this 
trip is given in the following Table, the total amounting to 1233 ewts :— 
Cod. Codling. Haddock. Turbot. Halibut. Lemon Dab.  Plaice. 
3h 2 5 } 1 1 99 
Brill. Common Dab. Witch. Skates. 
14 54 + 6 
Of the plaice, there were 5? cwts. of large, 253 cwts. of medium, and 68 
ewts. of small. 
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At the beginning of November another series of hauls was made in the 
Moray Firth, mostly at Burghead Bay and in the Dornoch Firth, but 
also on the Caithness coast. The weather was rather stormy, and the 
vessel, the ** Cairntoul,” had to be run for shelter to the Cromarty Firth. 
The fishing turned out to be poor from the market point of view, haddocks 
especially, which usually form an important item in the catch, being 
extremely scarce, 
The first haul at Burghead Bay, in from 8 to 10 fathoms of water, was 
for three hours and five minutes, and the total number of fishes taken 
was large, viz., 4331. They consisted, however, mostly of unmarketable 
fish, the marketable numbering 780 and the unmarketable 3551. Plaice 
was by far the most important, the total being 1005, of which 679 were 
marketable and 326 too small for market. One turbot and 7 brill were 
among the flat-fishes, as well as a few common dabs. A feature of the 
catch was the large numbers of small unmarketable haddocks that were 
taken. They totalled 2852, whereas not a single haddock of marketable 
size was taken. There were also 23 unmarketable codling, 90 whitings, 
and 117 gurnards. In the next haul, in the same locality, the depth 
being from 8 to 13 fathoms and the duration of the haul three hours and 
fifteen minutes, 3859 fishes were secured, of which 324 were marketable 
and 3535 unmarketable. The former were made up entirely of plaice, 
with a few dabs and two thornbacks; the plaice numbered altogether 
445, of which 301 were marketable. All the round-fishes were unmarket- 
able, and they comprised 2748 haddocks, 198 whiting, 47 codling, and 
204 gurnards. 
The total number of fishes taken in the two drags, the time of actual 
trawling being six hours and twenty minutes, was 8190, of which 1104 were 
marketable and 7086 unmarketable. The particulars are as follows :— 
) 
Codling. Haddock. Whiting. Gurnard. Turbot. 
I. 1 
II 70 5,600 288 821 
Total 70 5,600 288 321 1 
[ Continued, 
