of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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The second drag was for three hours and forty minutes, and the number 

 of fishes taken was 1236, 980 being marketable and 256 unmarketable. 

 They included 107 cod, twenty-seven codlings, all marketable, a ling, 796 

 haddocks, all but ten marketable, thirty-four plaice, all marketable, 

 fifteen lemon dabs, and some whitings and common dabs. 



The haddocks were mostly of the third or small class, only thirty being 

 firsts and 110 seconds. 



Another haul with the small-meshed net around the cod-end was made 

 at the " witch ground " about twelve miles oif Kinnaird Head, the depth 

 being fifty-one fathoms, and the duration of the haul one hour. The 

 total number of fishes taken in both nets was 2187, belonging to eleven 

 species ; no witches were captured. The numbers of each kind were as 

 follows : — 



Plaice, - 



3 



Whiting, - 



422 



Common Dab, 

 Long Rough Dab, 



412 



Norway Pout, - 



613 



269 



Gurnard, - 



12 



Cod, - 



1 



Gobius minutus, - 



1 



Hake, - 

 Haddock, 



6 



Angler, - 



1 



447 







The aggregate number of fish taken in twenty-four recorded hauls in 

 this trip in the Moray Firth and Aberdeen Bay — the duration of the 

 actual fishing being seventy-seven hours and forty minutes — was 49,728. 

 Of these, 41,787 were brought to market and 7941 thrown overboard. 



The quantity, in cwts., as determined by the Fishery Officer when the 

 fish were landed, was as follows, the total being 27 If cwts. : — 



Cod. 



Codling. 

 17* 



Ling. 

 i 



5 



Hake. 



i 



Haddock. 

 143J 



Whiting. 



Turbot. 



7 



g 



Brill. 

 1 



Lemon Dab. 



H 



Plaice. 

 44f 



Dabs. 

 i 



Witches. 





Conger. 

 i 



Skate. 

 8* 



Gurnard. 

 2 



Angler. 

 1 





V. 



At the end of October six hauls in Aberdeen Bay were made by the 

 steam trawler " Lochryan," four of which were recorded. In the first, in 

 from eight to fifteen fathoms of water, and which lasted for two hours and 

 twenty minutes, 835 fishes were taken, of which 675 were marketable and 

 160 unmarketable. The catch included twenty-nine cod, forty-three 

 codlings, all marketable, 399 haddocks, 338 whitings, seven plaice, a 

 brill, and a common sole. In the second haul, in from seven and a half 

 to twelve fathoms, for four hours and thirty-five minutes, 1066 fishes were 

 taken, the number marketable being 930. There were 106 cod, 151 

 codlings, all except six marketable, four coalfish, 320 haddocks, only 

 eleven of which were unmarketable, 308 plaice, and a number of 

 whitings and others. The succeeding two hauls were rather better, 

 haddocks especially being more abundant, and altogether in the four 

 drags — the time of actual fishing being fifteen hours and twenty-five 

 minutes — 6042 fishes were taken, of which 4654 were marketable and 

 1388 unmarketable, the average per hour's fishing being for the whole 

 catch 392*1, for the marketable 302-0, and for the unmarketable 90*1. 

 The average per hour for haddocks was 196*3, for whitings 117 5, and for 



