104 INVESTIGATIONS IN ST ANDREWS BAY, 1886. 



dividing the fishes captured into two groups, saleable and 

 unsaleable (chiefly immature). It has to be borne in mind that 

 during the first season or two, from insufficiency of funds, the 

 " Garland " was not kept at work the whole year. In 1866, the 

 work was carried out only during the months of June, July, 

 September, and November, and it is possible that the trawl was 

 less effective than it subsequently became. In the Tables, 

 moreover, barren hauls are omitted\ During the months men- 

 tioned seventeen hauls of the trawl were made in St Andrews 

 Bay, an area in which there were five stations, one (V.) beyond 

 the limit, and the rest within it, and about which a consider- 

 able amount of information has been collected during the last 

 forty years. A total of 1,792 saleable fishes were procured, 

 the majority being plaice, which were mostly captured within 

 the limits, though in June and September a considerable 

 number were got on the outer station (V.), where four out of 

 the six larger were also caught. Gurnards follow, the largest 

 number of these occurring at the latter station. Dabs are next 

 in order, and from the four inner stations, then haddocks — 

 dispersed generally over the area. Long-rough dabs were 

 likewise generally distributed, though the largest number (21) 

 were obtained in November at the station beyond the limit. 

 Two large lemon-dabs were got at the latter station, and fifteen 

 of the twenty smaller in the same line. Only two large cod, 

 one large haddock, two large whitings, a single coal-fish, four 

 flounders, a single turbot, a single brill, and a sprat were 

 obtained in the area ; eight skate were likewise procured. 



Of unsaleable (chiefly immature) fishes there were 1,186, 

 more than half being dabs, which were generally distributed 

 over the area, the largest catch, however, having been made 

 in September on Station III. in the middle of the bay, and 

 the next in order on Station I. along the southern border 

 — during the same month. The plaice (277) were likewise 

 generally distributed, the largest number having been got in 

 September on Station IV. along the inshore sandy margins of 

 St Andrews and Abort ay. The small gurnards were all pro- 



1 This refers to the tables alluded to in 1892, and to the annual tables from 

 which those in this work were made up. 



