SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. 89 
Professor Herdman began collecting his special hauls on 
March 25th, and added 16 to the official set. Four hauls, two 
and three miles outside the bay, were also taken by him. The 
pelagic eggs show a great increase compared with February, 
and average 74°7 per haul of the whole of the horizontal coarse 
and fine surface collections. The bay collections averaged 
77 eggs each, and the outside hauls 53-7 eggs. The coarse nets 
captured 106-4 eggs each in the bay, and the fine nets 48 eggs 
each. Outside the bay the coarse and fine nets averaged 65:5 
and 42 eggs respectively. Rockling eggs were more abundant 
in the bay than outside. The other pelagic eggs, with the 
exception of the green cod and the dragonet, appeared to have 
been better represented outside the bay, especially the whiting. 
No green cod eggs were identified in the outside collections. 
Plaice eggs occurred outside the bay only. 
APRIL. 
Coarse net, 9; Fine net, 9; Vertical net, 9; Bay official 
Pe 17 s Ne: ; F. 0; Bay special = 75 hauls 
es 7: é i 7; pf 0; 2 and 3 miles out 
Bay. OUTSIDE. 
Coarse. Fine. Vertical. Coarse. Fine. ‘Totals. 
Rockling eggs ... o ije20°6=— («B50 4 618 141 2,642 
Whiting eggs... .-. ol4 118 0 693 123 1,248 
cme |... .. (113 24 0 133 40 310 
Cod eggs poe wan 59 15 0 63 13 150 
Dragonet eggs ... wine 51 5 0 31 24 111 
Plaice eggs 7 r 2 1 0 2 2 7 
Sail fluke eggs ... cs : 0 9 oe 16 
Topknot eggs... A 21 7 0 2 0 50 
4 1,571 346 4,534 
wee =... «1,892 = 721 
Professor Herdman completed his special collections on 
April 13th, and added 34 samples to the official set. He also 
took 14 collections at two and three miles outside the bay. 
The total number of eggs captured was considerably higher 
