MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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been getting into touch with the local fishermen and 

 started getting statistics of the local fishing. Here is a 

 table showing the catches last spring of one of the 

 line boats fishing out of Port Erin : — • 



Date: 1901. 



Lines. 



God. 



Haddock. 



Skate. 



Congee. 





3 



4 

 6 



35 

 40 

 9,3 



1 



1 

 6 

 2 



1 

 4 

 1 

 2 

 4 

 14 

 5 



6 

 3 

 3 



4 

 6 



2 

 7 

 6 

 3 

 2 

 4 

 3 



2 



2 



2 

 3 



2 

 1 



1 



1 



3 



1 



1 

 2 

 5 



15th 



17th 



24th 



3 



4 21 

 6 i 103 



5 90 



31st 





,, 8th 



12th 



13th 



5 

 5 

 6 

 6 

 5 

 6 

 4 

 4 

 5 

 4 

 5 

 5 

 6 

 6 

 8 



43 

 53 

 62 

 41 

 86 

 79 

 56 

 45 

 40 

 86 

 80 

 46 

 51 

 82 

 50 



» 15th 



16th 



20th 



22nd 



25th 



29th 





9th 



13th 



14th 



19th 



22nd 



April 1st 





In connection with the abundance of food for young 

 fishes in the waters round Port Erin it may interest 

 readers to know of the following experience. The 

 numbers given may not be strictly accurate, but they are 

 probably a sufficiently close approximation to give a very 

 fair idea of the quantity of organisms in the water : — 



On June 16th, 1901, Mr. Thompson and I took 8 

 hauls of a small tow-net having a mouth one foot in 

 diameter. The net was worked from our shellbend punt, 

 going very slowly, between the Biological Station and 

 Spaldrick Bay. The first haul was for a horizontal 



