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ducted, prefer lugworms as a bait for haddocks, in fact, 

 the results shown in the above table are not in agreement 

 with the general opinions of fishermen at several points 

 of the Scottish coast. Both in Aberdeen district and in 

 the Firth of Forth the order of preference seems to be 

 lugworms, clams, mussels. On the Lancashire coast and 

 in other parts of England, lugworms are preferred to 

 mussels. 



Lugworms are used for baiting both long and short 

 lines, the custom varying in different localities. On the 

 Cheshire coast at New Brighton, at Piel, Lancashire, and on 

 the coast of Northumberland, short lines are usually em- 

 ployed, those of the New Brighton fishermen bearing only 

 about twenty hooks. In the Aberdeen district the lines 

 carry about three hundred hooks, and the Musselburgh 

 fishermen employ long lines bearing as many as twelve 

 to sixteen hundred hooks baited with lugworms. 



The lugworm has a faint odour and an ethereal 

 extract proved to be attractive to certain fish, e.g., turbot 

 and rockling.* It is doubtful whether this scent is suffi- 

 ciently strong to play any part in attracting the fish which 

 are usually caught with lugworm bait, as most of these 

 fish — cod, whiting, plaice, flounder and dab — appear to 

 find the bait by the sense of sight. t 



* P. Hughes. — Journal Marine Biological Association, Vol. 2, 

 p. 92. 



t W. Bateson. — Journal Marine Biological Association, Vol. 1, 

 p. 241. 



