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extensive, whose breeding-grounds are wide and for the most part 
remote from the areas where trawling is chiefly prevalent, and which 
at the same time are naturally extremely abundant in our seas, that 
are apparently best able to withstand, up to the present, all the 
inroads made by the trawler upon their numbers. 
The last series of Statistical Tables (pp. 62-64) show, for the year 
1912, the percentage proportion of cod, in the total catch of cod 
and codling and of small and extra small haddock and plaice, in 
the total catch of these fishes. In the following table (Table X.), 
the mean monthly percentages are set forth (for some of the 
principal areas) for the successive periods of 1904-7 and 1908-12.” 
TABLE X. 
Mean Monthly Percentage of ‘Small’ Cod, Haddock, and Plaice, in the 
total catch of those Fishes from certain Areas in the two periods 
1904-1907, 1908-1912. 
CoDLING. 
Area, Jan. | Feb. | Mar. fApl.| May.| June. | July. | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov.| Dec, | Mean. 
ax 1904-7 | 31 | 37 | 28 | 34 | 43 | 43 | 42 | 66 | 39} 35 | 36 | 45] 39°9 
1908-12} 50 | 48 | 35 | 36 | 51 | 50 | 59 | 71 | 71 | 64 | 55 | 59 | 54:1 
| XIII. nf 1904=7 |-15 | 13 | 29: | 40 | 33] 38 | 37 2 | 58 | 53 | 50 | 62 | 39:2 
1908-12) 56 | 51 | 44 | 52 | 54) 54 | 58 oS Al 47 a7) 98:2 
XVII.= ...| 1904-7 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 26 19 18 | 30 | 64 | 52 | 49 | 55) 31-7 
1908-12) 25 | 31 | 20'| 23 | 37 | 43 | 56 | 67 | 82 | 79} 66 |) 49) 482 
MOVE, ...| 1904-7 | 32} 25 | 11} 12) 16) 23 | 21 19 | 16 | 21 | 26) 388 | 21-7 
1908-12] 43 | 39 | 21 | 17 | 48 | 33 | 34 LO QO a2 Galore 42) lO 
XXIII. ...) 1904-7 | 51 | 43 | 37 | 24 | 31 7 26 | 34 | 38 | 50} 63 | 52] 41°3 
1908-12] 58 | 47 | 38 | 41 | 46 | 48 | 47 43 | 55 | 67 | 72 | 66 | 52°3 
| XXVIII. | 1904-7 | 75 | 60 | 68 | 23 | 51 | 37 | 69.| 68 | 86 | 80 | 80 | 62| 63:2 
1908-12] 74 | 69 | 64 | 73 | 62] 85 | 91 92 | 94 | 93 | 89 | 81 | 80°6 
PAXIX. ...) 1904-7 | 57 | 54 | 38 | 24 | 28 | 41 34 | 49 | 50 | 66 | 72 | 48] 46:3 
| 1908-12) 67 | 61 | 43 | 51 | 62 | 67 | 72 | 81 | 75 | 83 | 83 | 74 | 68-2 
1C. | 1904-7 | 44 | 38 | 44 | 38 | 30 | 27 | 28 | 33 | 36 44 | 59 | 33 | 37°8 
1908-12} 44 | 44 | 41 | 38 | 42! 46 | 50 | 59 | 63] 60 | 59 | 49 | 49°6 
| 
Happock, Small and Extra Small. 
Area. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar.| Apl. | May.| June.| July. | Aug.) Sep.| Oct.) Nov.| Dec. | Mean. 
X. : 1904-7 | 33 | 28 | 30} 31} 16] 15 | 16 | 19 | 27 | 31 | 34} 33) 26:1 
1908-12) 31 | 27 | 23 | 26 | 23] 24 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 24 | 25:0 
Penn 5..| 19047, edo.) 65 | 5451507} 29 | 24) 32 | 16 |16 | 21 | 25.) 22 | 324 
1908-12) 35 | 49 | 68 | 54 | 48 | 39 | 32 | 31 | 82 | 41 | 43 | 386] 41°9 
XVII. ...| 1904-7 | 60 | 66 | 64} 61 | 50} 50 | 53 | 44 | 63 |°34 | 41 | 52] 53-2 
| 1908-12) 66 | 66 | 69 | 72 | 69 | 64 | 59 | 52 | 59 | 55 | 63 | 69 | 63°6 
XVIII. ...| 1904-7 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 68 | 66 | 55 | 65 | 70 | 73 | 61 | 61 | 58 | 64°7 | 
1908-12) 74 | 73 | 76 | 76 | 79 | 77 | 77 | 7 79 | 75 | 74 | 64 | 752 
XXIII. ...| 1904-7 | 70 | 72 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 60 | 56 | 55 | 62 | 64°7 
1908-12) 73 | 63'| 71 | 75 | 77 | 72 | 70 | 68 | 66) 71 | 76). 72.) 711 
XXVIII. | 1904-7 | 70 | 61 | 61 | 64 | 65 | 41 74 | 58 | 45 | 47 | 53 | 52 |°57°6 
1908-12) 47 | 31 | 49 | 59 | 61 | 66 | 63 | 65 | 62 | 62 | 67 | 52! 569 
XXIX. ...| 1904-7 | 68 | 65 | 66 | 74 69 | 56 | 51 54 | 54] 56 | 55 | 58 | 60°5 | 
1908-12) 65 | 55 | 66 | 73 | 70 | 66 | 62 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 65°7 
GS: 1904-7 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 20] 15 | 19 19 13 | 14} 16 | 21 | 15] 158 
1908-12) 16 | 27 | 23 | 28 | 23} 19 | 21 28 | 25 | 26'| 27 | 27 | 242 
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* In Table X. it is the percentage of codling that is giv 
en, not of large cod. 
