SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. 277 



Place where Liberated. Place where Recaptured. 



Blackpool Closed ... 12 in Morecambe Bay. 

 Ground 2 in Eibble channels. 



1 near Great Orme's Head. 

 1 in the Dee Estuary. 

 1 off Blackcombe. 



Considering fish liberated and recovered in the waters 

 of the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries District, we 

 find that a little over 16 per cent, have been recovered at 

 the time of going to press (February, 1905) — that is 

 within the three months after liberation.* 



*Note added in press. — 100 more plaice have been marked and 

 liberated since the above was written. About twenty more fishes, 

 belonging both to the first lots set free, and to this latter lot, have been 

 recovered in addition to those noted above. One was sent from a 

 fishmonger's shop in Leicester. One of the fish set free off Puffin 

 Island was recovered about the middle of February in Pinfold 

 Channel, off Lytham, by Mr. Chris. Whiteside. 



