of the Fishery Board for US Gotland. 



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In the following Table are given the totals of each kind of fish taken in 

 these nine hauls, the marketable being indicated by I. and the unmarket- 

 able by II. : — 



There were also a conger, seven anglers, twenty-two sprats, five picked 

 dog-fishes, an armed-bullhead, a little or yellow sole, and a sting ray 

 {Trygon). The proportions of the plaice and haddocks of different sizes is 

 indicated in the following Table: — 



In a haul for an hour, in from eight to thirteen fathoms, with the 

 small-meshed net around the cod-end, 1522 fishes were captured, belonging 

 to fifteen species, as follows : — 



After leaving the Dornoch Firth the vessel steamed to the grounds ofi 

 Lybster, where five hauls were made in twenty-three and twenty-four 

 fathoms of water and good catches of haddocks got. In the first, which 

 was for one hour, 1008 fishes were taken, of which 956 were marketable 

 and fifty-two unmarketable. The haddocks numbered 904, all but four 

 marketable ; there were also fifty-one whitings, fourteen plaice, five lemon 



