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year at the Moray Firth stations, showing the numbers of boats fishing in the Moray 

 Firth, and the total quantities landed by them of the various sorts of fish, we see that 

 the [small-line fishing at Cromarty, Helmsdale (fig. 2^) and Banff shows a maximum of 



1905 



1904 



1905 



1906 



Fio;. 20. Codling. Area XVII. 



Cod either in February or at least in the period from December to March, but the 

 maximum is overshadowed at Wick by another and higher maximum which occurs later 

 on (Table II). 



Lastly, Mr. Holt informs us that on the east coast of Ireland, though the trawlers 



1902. 



1903 



1004 



i905 



1906 



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30 



20 



10 



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Fig, 21. Cod. Area XXV. 



catch no very great quantities of Cod, there are indications there of a maximum about 

 February and March, and Prof Henking shows us a maximum in winter or early spring 

 in the Southern North Sea, and a double maximum, first about November or December 

 followed by another and greater one in June in the Skagerrack. 



