2O4 The Under-Water World 



feeding-ground, may push forward and 

 travel from Dover to Ostend within a 

 year, whilst on the other hand, one put 

 overboard on good ground may wander 

 very little and be picked up, as has 

 actually happened, three times in as 

 many days by various trawlers. A plaice 

 returned to the sea by one of our 

 inspectors of fisheries off the coast of 

 Yorkshire was recaptured twenty miles 

 east of Aberdeen two and a half years 

 later. It had travelled over 150 miles 

 during the period in question and grown 

 eight inches in length. 



