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represent the opinions of the Committee. The reasons for our 

 opinion are given fully on pp. 167-179 of this report. 



The Area Investigated. 



The fishing grounds on which the observations and 

 experiments have been made are as follows : — 



(1) The Solway Firth, including Luce Bay and Wigton 

 Bay, and the fishing grounds between the Isle of Man and the 

 coast of Cumberland. Permission to work on these regions was 

 kindly given by the Scottish Fishery Board and the Cumberland 

 Sea- Fisheries Committee. 



(2) " Morecambe Bay." This includes the territorial 

 waters off the Lancashire coast, from the estuary of the Duddon 

 to Formby Point, and the offshore region out to the Morecambe 

 Bay Light Vessel. 



(3) " Liverpool Bay." This includes the estuaries of the 

 Mersey and Dee, and the adjacent sea out to the twenty-fathom 

 contour line. 



(4) " Red Wharf and Beaumaris Bays." This is the 

 region situated just off the coasts of Denbigh, Flint, Carnarvon, 

 and Anglesey, as far south as about Holyhead, and seaward 

 to about the twenty-fathom contour line. 



(5) Carnarvon and Cardigan Bays. 



(6) The inshore waters round Isle of Man. Work was done 

 there by arrangement with the Insular Fisheries Board. 



(7) The offshore regions in general, about and outside the 

 twenty-fathom contour line. 



The various geographical terms are employed rather 

 approximately and much in the same way as they are used 

 by fishermen. The whole region investigated is quite a small 

 one, but it is a typical, rich, inshore plaice fishing area of sea, 

 and it is one about which more is known than any other 

 similar region in the British fishing regions. The summary 

 that we provide cannot, therefore, fail to be of much interest 

 and practical importance. 



