of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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In the following Table are given the totals of each kind of fish taken in 

 these nine hauls, the marketable being indicated by I. and the unmarket- 

 able by II. : — 



I. 

 II. 



Total 



Plaic( 



1,552 

 100 



1,652 



Common 

 Dab. 



89 

 2,099 



2,188 



Witch. 



Lemon 

 Dab. 



23 



23 



Brill. 



Cod. 



54 



54 



Codling. 



138 

 45 



183 





Haddock. 



Whiting. 



Coal-fish. 



Gurnard. 



Cat-fish. 



Thornback. 



I. 



7,666 



33 





35 



1 



12 



II. 



70 



190 



2 



99 







Total 



7,736 



223 



2 



134 



1 



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There were also a conger, seven anglers, twenty-two sprats, five picked 

 dog-fishes, an armed-bullhead, a little or yellow sole, and a sting ray 

 (Trygori). The proportions of the plaice and haddocks of different sizes is 

 indicated in the following Table: — 







Large. 



Medium. 



Small. 



Fourths.' 



Unmarket- 

 able. 





No. . 



100 



261 



438 



753 



100 



Plaice 



Average per 

 Hour 



3-4 * 



9-0 



15-1 



26-0 



3-4 



Had- J 



dock 



No. . 



Average per 

 Hour 



1,033 

 35-6 



879 

 30-3 



5,754 

 198-4 





70 

 2-4 



In a haul for an hour, in from eight to thirteen fathoms, with the 

 small-meshed net around the cod-end, 1522 fishes were captured, belonging 

 to fifteen species, as follows : — 



Brill, - 



1 



Coal-fish, - 



1 



Plaice, - 

 Lemon Dab, 



- 364 



Gurnard, - 



35 



3 



Pogge, 

 Sprat, 



4 



Common Dab, 



- 724 



43 



Little Sole, - 



8 



Sting Ray, 



i 



Cod, - 



8 



Thornback, 



1 



Haddock, 



- 95 



Piked Dog-fish, - 



1 



Whiting, 



- 233 





After leaving the Dornoch Firth the vessel steamed to the grounds oft 

 Lybster, where five hauls were made in twenty-three and twenty-four 

 fathoms of water and good catches of haddocks got. In the first, which 

 was for one hour, 1008 fishes were taken, of which 956 were marketable 

 and fifty-two unmarketable. The haddocks numbered 904, all but four 

 marketable ; there were also fifty-one whitings, fourteen plaice, five lemon 



