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Those figures will be more easily understood by 

 consulting the diagram below. In this the black columns 

 represent the actual increase in length of the plaice 

 captured from month to month. 



Jam/ • Feby • Mar- Afml -May- June- July- Auq-Sept- 



Pig. 10. Actual increase in growth of the plaice during the months 

 January— September. The figures on the left hand indicate 

 inches of growth, and those on the right centimetres. 



It will be seen from the chart thai the growth of the 

 plaice is very slight during the months January, 

 February and March; practically the fish docs no) grow 

 at all during this period. Then from April to September 



the growth is very rapid, and it is only during this season 

 of the year thai growth really takes place. By the end 



of September the average increase in length of the fishes 



