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all caught in the Barrow Channel by Mr. John "Wright, 

 Head Bailiff at Fleetwood, and brought into Piel 

 Hatchery, where it was marked. It was then taken out 

 to beyond the Morecambe Bay Lightship and liberated. 

 It returned again into Barrow Channel, and about ten 

 weeks after its first capture it was again caught by Mr. 

 Wright. It Avas then kept alive in the Piel tanks for a 

 couple of days and again taken out to beyond the same 

 Lightship. But hardly a month afterwards the 

 unfortunate fish was recaught by the Fleetwood smack 

 FD 99 and sent to the Liverpool Laboratory. 



At least four plaice have crossed the Irish Channel. 

 One of these, 'No. L 352, was liberated on Blackpool 

 Closed Ground on 13th November, 1905, and about six 

 months later news of its capture at Courtown Bay, 

 Co. Wexford, Ireland, reached me via a coastguard 

 officer, the Irish Board of Agriculture and Technical 

 Instruction, the English Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, and Dr. Jenkins, who formed the last link of 

 this official chain. This fish, supposing it had made a 

 straight course for Courtown (which it, most probably, 

 did not) had travelled at least 130 miles in 6 months. 

 Other two fish have been reported from the East Coast of 

 Ireland, one from near Balbriggan, in Co. Meath, and 

 another from Belfast Lough. In each case the brass label 

 had disappeared, but the bone button and silver wire 

 indicated that these fishes had been liberated on the East 

 side of the Irish Sea. One probably came from Blackpool, 

 and the other from Luce Bay. Finally, a Luce Bay fish 

 was taken in a herring-net in Campbelltown Loch on the 

 Argyllshire side of the Firth of Clyde. It is to be noted 

 that all these fishes must have crossed water of at least 

 50 fathoms in depth, unless, indeed, the Campbelltown 

 fish made a circuitous journey round the Lochs of the 

 Clyde. 



