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Surface Nets. 10 fatha. Shear Net. 



18 1,(500 600 1,200 



22 GOO 000 1.000 4,000 



23 1,500 1,2.-0 4.000- 



23 1,600 2,500 1.700 



23 600 650 13,480 



23 360 380 — 9,240 



24 3.300 2,000 1.100 



This is the climax: during May. June and July the 



numbers are lower. 



July 31 1,570 — — — 



Aug. 9 600 — 



10 2,500 — — 



21 100 200 125 3,260 



21 2 2 40 140 



During most of August and September the numbers 

 keep low, although in former years we have 1 , on occasions, 

 taken very large hauls of Calan-us in Port Erin bay in 

 August and September. 



Sept. 11 35 40 675 



12 5 11 300 2,600 



18 1 1 255 



19 32 15 440 4,920 



Then the surface hauls ran as follows : —September 

 24th, 500; September 30th, 20; October 9th, 200; 

 October 14th, 2,700; October 24th, 475; November 4th. 

 30 ; November 8th, 85 ; November 16th, 8 ; November 

 25th, 12; December 12th, 2; December 20th, 0; 

 December 23rd, 21 ; December 30th, 2. And so the year 

 ended as it began, with low numbers, the highest figures 

 being in April, and then again in Autumn ; but the 

 species is never absent. 



It will be noticed that during April the larger 

 numbers are sometimes in the surface nets and sometimes 

 deeper ; but that in September the weighted net at 

 10 fathoms contains most. The shear-net is not 

 comparable with the others. 



In the latter half of July, the " Ladybird " made a 

 run up the west coast of Scotland, to Skye, and took a few 



