of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 23 
minutes, 597 fish were caught, 184 being marketable and 413 unmarket- 
able. The catch was made up mainly of small haddocks and plaice, 
together with common dabs. In the second haul, for four hours and ten 
minutes, 1339 fishes were secured, of which 556 were marketable and 
783 unmarketable. The catch was again chiefly composed of small 
haddocks. In these two hauls, the time of fishing being eight hours 
and twenty minutes, 1936 fishes were taken, of which 740 were market- 
able and 1196 unmarketable. The haddocks numbered 1565, no less 
than 999 of them being too small to be marketable. The numbers of 
haddocks of the various classes were these :— 
Ist. 2nd 3rd 4th Unmarketable Total 
Haddock 2 48 49] a 999 1565 
The plaice were also, asa rule, small, but the separate sizes were not 
noted. 
The details regarding the different species are as follows: — 
| * 1 Long 7 
Cod-  Had-| Whit-) Gur- at Lemon |Common Thorn- Ang- 
ling. | dock.| ing. | nard. Fipiee: Dab. Dab. hous back. | ler. 
tee oS SOG oom 135 5 127 . 3 | 
IL. » (999) 16 |. 87 8 - - 6 =arisinit 12 
Total 4 |1,565} 43 37 143 5 127 6 3 2 
A number of hauls were then taken between Burghead Bay and 
Lossiemouth, in water from 7 to 12 fathoms deep. In the first, 
which lasted for three hours and fifteen minutes, 498 fishes were caught, 
287 being marketable and 211 unmarketable. The catch comprised 347 
haddocks—nearly half of them too small to be taken to market—and 42 
cod. In the second, for four hours and thirty-five minutes, 892 fishes 
were caught, 458 being marketable and 434 unmarketable. Haddocks 
again formed the bulk of the catch, numbering 587, of which less than 
half were marketable, and there were also 145 plaice and seven cod. 
Most of the other hauls made in this place were less productive, but in 
one the number was considerably exceeded. It was for four hours and 
five minutes, and 3157 fishes were captured, of which 972 were market- 
able and 2185 unmarketable. The catch comprised 1425 haddocks, 879 
being too small to go to market ; 358 plaice, all but 6 marketable; 1082 
common dabs, 201 gurnards: (none taken to market), 51 codling, 4 cod, 
2 turbot, 8 brill, and 5 lythe or pollack. 
In the seven hauls between Burghead and Lossiemouth, the duration of 
fishing being twenty-eight and a half hours, the total number of fishes 
caught was 6637, or an average of 2328:9 per ten hours’ fishing ; the 
marketable fishes numbered 2880, or an average of 1010-4 per ten hours, 
the unmarketable numbering 3757, or an average per ten hours of 
13183. Of 2871 haddocks caught rather more than half, viz. 1474, 
were unmarketable, while of 1203 plaice only 7 were too small to be 
taken to market. In one of the hauls 5 lythe were caught, in another 
4 coalfish, too small to be marketable; and in another 4 fine black 
soles, a fish which is very rarely caught in these waters. Of the 1397 
haddocks, 96 were large, 204 mediums, and 1097 small or thirds; a 
classification into thirds and fourths was not adopted on this occasion. 
