of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 53 
in sixty-four fathoms in June about sixty miles from the northern coast 
of Aberdeen; and one, 26 inches in length, in seventy fathoms, near 
the Viking Bank. 
Thus the turbot, like the plaice, extends its wanderings into com- 
paratively deep water at a distance from the land. 
Hauisut (Hippoglossus vulgaris). 
Very few halibut were obtained in the course of the investigations— 
viz., ninety-six—and they were nearly all small. Most of them were 
taken in the deep-water voyages off the Shetlands, sixty-three in 
number, their sizes ranging from 174 to 494 inches, and running 
almost always between twenty and thirty inches. They were got most 
plentifully in the hauls off Fair Isle, in sixty-five fathoms, in October. 
Six were taken in the nine hauls on the Fisher Bank, in thirty-four 
fathoms, at the end of May and beginning of June, and all were small. 
The number obtained in the Moray Firth was eighteen, taken in 
January, February, March, May, June, October, November, and 
December ; and fifteen were procured in Aberdeen Bay in May, June, 
November, and December. None were taken in fifty-three hauls in 
the Moray Firth and Aberdeen Bay in July, August, and September, 
probably indicating that the small halibut at this period move off into 
deeper water, although it cannot be said that they are numerous at any 
time in the shallower areas which were investigated. These smaller 
forms, when taken, are usually found near rocky ground. Only one of 
them was too small to be marketable. No halibut, it may be said, were 
procured in the eight hauls in from fifty-three to seventy fathoms at the 
Dog Hole, off Aberdeen. The smallest halibut I obtained were these :— 
In the Dornoch Firth in December, one measuring 35°3 em. (14 inches), 
and weighing 153 oz.; in Aberdeen Bay, in from eight to eighteen 
fathoms, on Ist November, one of 188 mm. (72 inches) ; off Dunbeath, 
Caithness, in October, one of 285 mm. (117 inches). 
The trawlers working on the north-eastern and northern grounds 
always bring in a few halibut, mostly small—ranging about the sizes 
stated above, and occasionally a large one is included in the ‘‘ shot.” 
They are much more abundant on the Farée and Iceland grounds. I 
have seen a “shot ” from Iceland landed by a foreign trawler which 
included many hundreds and perhaps thousands of small halibut, 
many of them no larger than flounders, The supply of halibut, how- 
ever, mostly depends upon the liners. 
Lirrte SoLe or SoLenerre (Solea lutea). 
This small pleuronectid was obtained occasionally in the ordinary 
trawl-net, particularly in the Moray Firth, and also in the shrimp-net 
and small-meshed net. Specimens were obtained in the Dornoch Firth, 
off Lossiemouth, and in Burghead Bay in April, June, August, 
November, and December, in from five to fifteen fathoms, and off 
Lybster, Caithness, in November, in twenty-three or twenty-four 
fathoms. Forty-five specimens were caught in the Moray Firth, besides 
a number by the “‘ Garland ”—as many as twenty-two and fifteen in a 
haul for an hour—in December, in ten to twelve fathoms, off the Suters 
of Cromarty. In July, some years ago, the ‘“ Garland” found large 
numbers spawning on Smith Bank, sixty in one haul.* 
In Aberdeen Bay it was much more rare, ten specimens being taken 
in October, November, and January. It appears to be still rarer 
* Seventh Ann. Rep., Part I11., p. 191. 
