218 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Haul 1. 



Fish caught. 



Numbers. 



Sizes. 



Plaice 



2 



157 



19 



1 

 95 

 32 

 97 



1 



8 



4 

 10 



1 

 Numerous. 



1 

 Very numerous. 



1 



6 



Over 14" 

 Under 14"* 



Dabs 



Brill 



2"— 8f" 

 4" 



Herring 



U"— 5" 



Codling 



3i"_4i" 



Whiting 



4i"_5X" 



Poor Cod 



5" 

 9"— 10" 



Saithe — Gadus virens 



Pollack — G. pollachius 



Sand-eels 



Callionymus hjra 



5" 

 15" 



Gasterosteus spinachia 



Acanthias vulgaris 



Gobius minutus 



2f" 

 8" 



Syngndthus ctciia 



Siphonostoma tt/pJUe 



10J" 







* Six of these were from 9" to 10" ; the rest were about 4". 



Six hauls with a fish trawl of 30 feet beam and with 

 7 inch meshes throughout were then made. We en- 

 deavoured to obtain large plaice only, and in good condi- 

 tion, so that a large-meshed net was purposely used so as 

 to capture as few small fish as possible and prevent injury 

 to the mature plaice caught by invertebrate and other 

 debris. Short drags of an hour to an hour and a quarter 

 duration were made, and the net was hauled and cleared 

 as rapidly as possible and then shot again. Fishing 

 under such conditions is rather laborious work, and we 



