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would naturally be expected, caught more than the fine 
net. The two very much larger wider-meshed nets, the 
Fia. 12. The mouth of the ‘‘ shear-net.”’ 
shear net and the Yngel-trawl, also on occasions obtained 
large numbers of fish eggs; but did not get so many more, 
relatively to the catch of the coarse net, as we should have 
expected from their size. We give here a list showing all 
the hauls of the coarse and the shear nets taken at all the 
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Fig. 18. ‘* Yngel-trawl,’’ with ‘‘ otter-boards’’: a, mouth. 
stations and the bay during April, 1908, to illustrate this 
point. It will be seen, for example, that on April 24th, 
at Station I, the coarse net took 68 fish eggs and the much 
