of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 17 
Cod. Codling. Haddock. | Whiting. | Gurnard. | Coal-fish. 
I 39 10 6 1 
II 3 24 66 
39 10 9 24 66 ul 
Plai Lemon Common Fl 1 ee 
aice, Date Dabs ounder., oug 
Dab. 
ie 1,073 1 1,196 18 
Tie 20 : 689 12 8 
1,093 1 1,885 30 8 
There were also taken fifteen grey skates, eight thornbacks, and fifty-six 
starry rays, as well as 109 anglers and six herring. 
A haul for sixty-five minutes was also made at the Dog Hole, off 
Aberdeen, in fifty-five fathoms, and 133 fishes were taken in the otter- 
net, 122 being marketable. ‘he marketable catch comprised one cod, 
fifteen codling, twenty-four haddocks, twenty whitings, two ling, a 
saithe, four plaice, forty-two lemon dabs, two common dabs, and eleven 
megrims, and there were also seven unmarketable starry rays, one grey 
skate, and three anglers, The small-meshed net around the otter-traw] 
contained a number of small whitings, haddocks, a few codling, two 
gurnards, a small angler, and an armed bull-head. 
On the 15th the vessel began work in the Moray Firth, the first haul 
being made at Burghead Bay in from ten to fifteen fathoms, and it 
lasted for four hours. The catch comprised 1319 fishes, 1043 of which 
were marketable and 276 unmarketable. Among the former were four 
cod, four codlings, 349 haddocks—fifty-one large, forty-six medium, and 
252 small,—forty-seven whitings, seventy-six gurnards, and five cat- 
fishes. Plaice numbered 322, the majority being small, and there were 
nine lemon dabs, 160 common dabs, and fifty-nine witches, as well as 
one brill. The unmarketable consisted mostly of dabs, with some 
gurnards and whitings. Although the number of fishes was fairly 
large the catch was not a valuable one, owing to the paucity of good 
haddocks and plaice. 
A second drag in the same locality, although yielding a somewhat 
greatér number of fishes, was not more profitable. The total was 1680, 
of which 1294 were marketable and 386 unmarketable. The haddocks 
numbered 264, but there were only sixty large and twenty mediums 
among them, the remainder: being small. Of 419 plaice taken, only 
nine were large and thirty-three medium. There were also two cod, 
ten cat-fishes, six witches, four lemon dabs, and 537 marketable common 
dabs. The bulk of the unmarketable fishes consisted of dabs, gurnards, 
and anglers, of which thirty-seven were caught. 
The vessel then shifted its ground westwards to off the Suters of 
Cromarty, where a haul for two hours and forty-five minutes in from 
eight to twelve fathoms of water yielded only 784 fishes, of which 633 
were marketable. The principal result of the change was an increase 
in the number of codlings and witches taken and a few more haddocks, 
but plaice were scarcer than before, totalling only seventy-nine, of 
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