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Part Til. — Twenty-fourth Annual Report 



and " Black Dog," and it lasted for three hours and five minutes. The 

 total number of fishes caught was 232, consisting of 208 marketable and 

 24 unmarketable. Among the former were 50 cod, of a rather small size, 

 known as "half-cod," as well as 46 codling, 100 plaice, all but 2 market- 

 able and of medium size, 5 flounders, a common dab, and 30 starry rays. 

 The second haul, for four hours and ten minutes, off Newburgh, in 6 to 

 12 fathoms, yielded only 158 fishes, the marketable numbering 135. 

 They consisted of 29 cod, 38 codling, 23 plaice, and a few others, 

 including 62 starry rays. The third haul, a little further to the north, in 

 about the same depths, for three hours and fifty minutes, yielded 297 

 fishes, of which 292 were marketable. Cod were less numerous, 

 numbering 4 ; there were also 9 codling, a few dabs and starry rays, and 

 a lumpsucker, while on this occasion the catch of plaice was relatively 

 large, viz., 258, most of them being medium, and 9 large. The num- 

 bers in other hauls were even less. 



Altogether, in six recorded hauls, representing twenty hours and thirty- 

 five minutes of actual trawling, the total number of fishes taken was 

 only 1018, consisting of 937 marketable and 81 unmarketable. The 

 particulars are as follows, the marketable being indicated on the first 

 line: — 





Cod. 



Codling. 



Had- 

 dock. 



Whiting. 



Plaice. 



Flounder. 



Com. 

 Dab. 



Starry 

 Ray. 



II. 



90 



119 

 1 



3 



10 



7 



567 

 2 



9 

 1 



55 

 21 



84 

 49 



Total 



90 



120 



3 



17 



569 



10 



76 



133 



Two hauls were made with the small-meshed net around the cod-end, 

 the first in from 6 to 10 fathoms between Donmouth and " Black Dog," 

 and it lasted for one hour and five minutes. The number of fishes in 

 the otter trawl was only 30, consisting of 21 codling, 2 plaice, .2 whiting, 

 and 5 starry rays. In the small-meshed net outside the cod-end were 

 154 small dabs measuring from 29 mm. (1^ inches) to 177 mm. 

 (3 inches), as shown on page 252. 



The second haul was taken in deeper water, about 3 miles off Girdle- 

 ness, the depth being from 18 to 25 fathoms, and it lasted for seventy 

 minutes. In the otter trawl, which was torn, there were 76 fishes, and 

 in the small-meshed net 718, as follows : — 



In Trawl. In Small-meshed Net. 



Codling, .... 9 6 



Ling, 3 — 



Haddock, .... 19 314 



Whiting, .... 3 364 



Norway Pout, ... — 9 



Turbot, .... 1 



Plaice, .... 14 — 



Lemon Dab, '. 6 



Common Dab, ... 21 5 



Long Rough Dab, . . 16 



Herring, .... — 4 



76 718 



