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FISHES AND FISHERIES OF THE IRISH SEA. 



Date. 



Ground fished 

 upon. 



9th Sept., 1898 ..Entrance Ribble Estuary 

 1 5th Sept., 1898 ..Nelson Buoy 

 24th Nov., 1899 . Barrow Channel 

 23rd Dec., 1899 . ,, 



igth Feb., 1900... ,, 



NOTE. A very large proportion of the Flukes taken were about Jib. each, and many were 

 under that weight. The following- two records are also instructive : 



November 2ist, 1894. Mr. Eccles, our head bailiff, went on board a small inshore 

 Morecambe boat which was fishing- just outside our boundary line, off the Mersey, with a full 

 7-inch mesh, and saw taken with this net, in about 20 minutes, 2 cwt. of plaice. 



June i3th, 1893. At the bottom end of the Horse Channel, in a drag- in which the net 

 was down i hour and 2 minutes, with a trawl net of 7-inch mesh and 25-feet beam, 256 Ibs. of 

 fish were taken, principally plaice. Members of the Committee, and Liverpool fish salesmen 

 and merchants, newspaper representatives, and others witnessed this haul. 



VI. Results of a few hauls with experimental beam trawl net, 7-inch mesh, showing- 



that the 7-inch mesh will take Haddock. 



Date. 



Length of Duration 

 Trawl Beam. of Drag. 

 Feet. Hours. 



22nd Mar., 1898 



9th Sept., 1898 

 22nd Nov., 1898 



NOTE, 



Locality. 

 Horse Channel 







Formby Channel Entrance 

 Off Mersev Bar 



Nelson Buoy 

 . Off Ribble Estuary 

 Blackpool 

 Seaward Entrance to Rock 



Channel 

 25 ... 4 ... 17 miles W.S.W. from 



Black Combe 



25 i ... Off Ribble Estuary 



25 ... ii ... Entrance Queen's Channel, 



Mersey 

 The 7-inch mesh will take haddock of lib. in weight. 



Number 

 (or weight) 

 of Haddock. 

 Lbs. 



2O2 



153 

 71 



448 



