118 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
In all these experiments the mark employed by the 
Mnglish Section of the International Fishery Investiga- 
tions has been employed. The labels lettered “ Hi,’ used 
in experiment 1, 1908, were given to me by Mr. J. O. 
Borley, and must not be confused with those attached to 
fishes liberated in the English Channel or North Sea. 
It will be seen that some of the fishes marked and 
liberated during 1906 and 1907 have been recaptured 
during 1908. Because of this overlapping of the results 
of several years, and also because of the few experiments 
made during 1908, I do not propose to discuss the results 
tabulated in this Report. We hope to be able to make 
several large experiments during 1909, and then sufficient 
data ought to have been accumulated to enable us to 
discuss these experiments as a whole, and in the light of 
other observations relating to the hfe-history of the plaice 
in the Irish Sea. 
The information given in the Tables is as follows :—- 
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sO ile 3 4 5 6 ‘A 8 
Big o 2 ua ee 62 
ts Ponu| o8 | B&B 8 a 2 aml ee 
SS oe oo. o 2, in MVE) ogc (Se 
Bis OW Rae SMe Ne) oS >= a.6 9/0] = o's a & 
27> (825 | a8 | @e | ae ee ei eee 
a= a Saal eaes o ae = 5 
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The letters under heading 8 mean:—ST, steam 
trawler; 11, first class sailing trawler; 27, second class 
sailing trawler; SN, stake net; TN, trammel net; and 
GN, gill net. 
The condition of the fishes returned, their weights 
in grams, their ages, and their sexes and conditions as 
regards sexual maturity, have been recorded. But until 
the results of the experiments, as a whole, are discussed 
it is inadvisable to make analyses of these data. 
