28 Part IT1.-—Twenty-first Annual Report 
Five Norway naddocks were also caught in this drag. Two other trawlers 
were working on the same grounds. 
The fourth haul, in seventy-nine fathoms, yielded 973 fish, of which 
805 were marketable, the catch including eleven cod, 122 codling, 292 
haddocks, 307 whitings, three coal-fish, four ling, three tusks, and 155 
witches. A bib (Gadus luscus) was also taken. One haddock among 
those taken in this drag, on 3rd June, was spawning, illustrating the 
fact that the spawning season is later on the deeper northern grounds 
than farther south, although the bottom water, judging from the few 
observations made, was only half a degree colder than at the Fisher 
Bank, where none of the haddocks were observed to be in spawn—and 
the condition of the haddocks in this respect was made a special point 
of enquiry. The surface temperature at the Fisher Bank was about 
2°5° F. warmer than in this locality. 
The fifth haul was made in the same place, in eighty-one fathoms— 
the deepest of the series—and on a muddy bottom. The total catch 
was 831 fishes, of which 762 were marketable and 69 unmarketable. It 
comprised 12 cod, 100 codlings, 281 haddocks, 46 whitings, two saithe, 
one ling, three tusk, 335 witches, 18 megrims, and a grey skate, as well 
as three Norway haddocks. 
Other six hauls were made in this neighbourhood, and the particulars 
of the seven hauls which were completely recorded are as follows, the 
depths ranging from seventy-six to eighty-one fathoms. The aggregate 
number of fishes caught was 5244, or an average per four hours’ haul of 
7491, the average per hour’s fishing being 187:3. The marketable 
fishes numbered 4571, with averages respectively of 653 per haul and 
163:2 per hour. The unmarketable fishes numbered 673, the respective 
averages being 96°1 and 24. The particulars for the various species are 
given in the following Table :— 
Fuat FIsH. 
Lemon Common PONE 
Plaice. ‘ Witch. Rough |Megrim.| Halibut. 
Sole. Dab. 
Dab. 
No. a 4 : 1 1,574 2 413 146 il 
Ay. per haul, é 0:16 224°8 3 59-2 20°8 0°16 
Av. per hour, t 0:04 56:2 0:07 14°8 5:2 0:04 
RounD FIsH. 
1 97 Had- | Whit- | Gur- - . Cat- 
Cod. |Codling. dock. ing. byhaey, Saithe.| Ling. ! Tusk. fish. 
No. : 5 tay) yk | ese 513 36 37 18 10 it 
Av. per haul, | 10:0] 81:2 | 256-4 73°2 5:2 5:2 24) 1:6 | 0:16 
Avy. per hour, | 2°5 | 20:3 64:1 18°3 1:3 1:3 06 | 0-4 | 0°04 
The single specimens of the lemon sole and the halibut were got in the 
same haul in seventy-six fathoms, and the two common dabs in a haul 
in seventy-nine fathoms. Long rough dabs were present in each haul 
