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the Nortliern Grounds furnish about 54 7o, the East Coast Grounds 28 "/o, the Middle 

 Grounds 1 1 "/o and the Southern Grounds 7 "/o of the total weight of the plaice landed 

 in Aberdeen. 



Since the year 1907 a great number of weighings and measurements of plaice have 

 been carried out in Aberdeen. As however only a small part of the results of these 

 measurements have yet been published, we are unable to gather any satisfactory know- 

 ledge as to the composition of the Scottish plaice landings. We can however give an 

 estimate of the approximate weight and number of plaice annually landed at Aberdeen 

 for the four regions referred to and for the whole district. 



Table 7. Estimated weights and numbers 0/ plaice landed in Aberdeen from the North Sea. 

 (Average of the three years 1905 to 1907). 



From this we see, firstly, that the market classification in Aberdeen is quite 

 different to that employed at the Enghsh fishing ports: the average weight and average 

 length of the plaice are considerably higher for all three market classes — large, 

 medium and small — in Aberdeen than in England. The ''small" class in Aberdeen 

 for instance, corresponds more or less exactly to the Grimsby "medium". Such small 



