160 Part IL1.—Twenty-fourth Annual Report 
between Broughty-Ferry and Tayport. On several occasions the 
Broughty-Ferry men drifted for winter herring as far up the estuary as 
the Tay Bridge, while the sprat men were several times from 7 to 2 miles 
below Tayport. 
During the course of this season’s fishing 40 samples of mixed sprats, 
young herrings, and other fishes were bought and examined. The samples 
consisted of :— 
Young Herrings, . 17,115, from 43cm. to 17:5cm. 
Sprats, . 5 ; 2 SEDI wn. 4-5 to dG 
Young Sparlings, GOD. cr 4:2 ,, to 150 ,, 
> ) Whiting, SUB 50 G53 CO yg- GO, LORI ae 
sr, OG a 215, Si 2 serbol GeO 
Place: a el Be 4:3" = to 15:05 
7 eoDalbs, 6 : : SOM) aes 38, to oO 
.,  Flounders, . ; LORS F 530.0,, bo 1 O:0 oe 
»  waithe, . ; : Pian ee SOs = sto AGO 
27,007 
Agonus cataphractus, . ‘ : : 109 
Ammodytes tobianus, . 5 (ite 
Liparis montagut, : 70 
Gobius minutus, . : : ; : 70 
Syngnathus, sp., . : ; 9 
Cottus scorpius, . : 7 
Gasterosteus spinachia, 4 
Centronotus gunnellus, : : 3 
Gasterosteus aculeatus, 1 
Petromyzon fluviatilis, 1 
The numbers of young cod, whiting, plaice, dabs, flounders, and saithe 
are somewhat larger than is shown in the above Table, owing to the fact 
that the daily catches are to some extent picked before and sometimes 
after being brought into the Dundee Tidal Harbour. Large quantities of 
leaves, rushes, and weeds of all kinds also enter the nets, and even 
branches of trees, which sometimes cause great damage to the nets, and 
the picking and throwing overboard of this rubbish and of the young 
fish entails a great amount of labour to the men. 
During the first half of the month of November, while the fish were 
abundant and the percentage of sprats remained over 70, the number of 
other fishes caught along with the sprats was quite insignificant. 
A typical unpicked sample of the fish consisting of :— 
Sprats, : Sit OBIE 
Young Herring, . ; ‘ 86 
nh SANG Mesa ins L f ; : , 1 
Agonus cataphractus, . ; : : ; 1 
Shrimps, . ; ; , : . 1 
1146 
The above sample represents about one-seventeenth part of a cran. 
