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summer contained 86% of young herring. The 
remaining 14% were young sprats 21 inches long. 
When the sprats disappeared from the Morecambe area 
early in the spring of the present year the shoals of 
young herring failed to appear in any quantity. The 
prosecution of the fishery was, of course, abandoned for 
the time being. The only places where samples could 
be obtained for examination were the “‘baulks’’ at the 
West end. The fish were left stranded by the receding 
tide and gathered up by hand. The stranded fish were 
occasionally used to bait the eel traps by the owner of 
the ‘‘baulks.’’ The ‘‘baulks’’ act as a barometer to 
the ‘‘whitebait’’ fishermen, and they know from the 
quantity stranded whether it will be worth while 
applying for permits to use small-meshed nets for their 
capture. The fishermen complained of the decreased 
demand in the London market owing to the giving up of 
‘“whitebait’’ dinners, ete. I suggested that an attempt 
might be made to induce the owners of fried fish shops 
to use ‘‘whitebait’’ if the usual fish supplies were 
unavailable. Some of the owners of the shops were 
interviewed, but they were not very enthusiastic. They 
say the usual supplies of flat and other fish are well 
maintained, and they have no difficulty in getting what 
they want. This was certainly the case when I visited 
Morecambe. I saw some very fine catches of soles, cod, 
ete., which had been landed by the local half-decked 
boats that morning. Some of the more enterprising 
fishermen might try the experiment for themselves on 
the visitors in the same way as they have developed the 
potted-shrimp industry. ‘‘ Whitebait’’ caught and 
used locally is to be preferred to that which has had a 
long railway journey. 
The Ulverston mussel beds were visited twice, the 
first time with Dr. Jenkins and the second time with 
Dr. Johnstone. The Priory bed, which has occasionally 
