200 Part ITI—Twenty-fourth Annual Report 
I append a Table showing the occurrence of the small turbots in the 
various months of the year. The bracket shows the spawning period. 
Cm. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | April.| May. | June. | July.| Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. 
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In the salmon stake-nets at Montrose 52 young turbots were taken in 
May, June, and July, the measurements of which are given in inches in 
the Table subjoined (2), and as near as possible in centimetres in Table 
XVII. 
The greater number were obtained in May, viz., 30, while 17 were got 
in June and 5 in July; perhaps an indication that the young turbot move 
further out with the rise in temperature. 
From what has been stated above, it is probable that the smallest at 4 
inches (101mm.) are turbot of the preceding year and are approaching 
their first year of age. Whether those at 43 to 43 inches (115mm. to 
120mm.) in May are also fish of the preceding year, under one year of age, 
is not so clear. The curve formed by the May measurements appears to 
show the presence of four groups, and the first is separated from the 
second by a deep division at 13cm (53 inches), and the second from the 
third at 17cm. to 18cm. (7 inchas) The figures, in centimetres, are as 
follows :— 
LO 2s 4 Sle 17 19 20 21 22 28 24 25 26 27 28 
8° S 6 a5) 7 1S 2 8. ee) Salo) be 
