38 Part III. — Twenty-second Annual Report 



plaice 33*5. The numbers of fishes of the various kinds, marketable (I.) 

 and unmarketable (II.), were as follows : — 





Plaice. 



Common 

 Dab. 



Floun- 

 der. 



Lemon 

 Dab. 



Sole. 



Brill. 



Long 

 Rough 

 Dab. 



Cod. 



I. 

 II. 



Total 



507 

 10 



40 

 33 



5 



3 



2 



1 



2 



197 



517 



73 



5 



3 



2 



1 



2 



197 





Codling. 



Haddock. 



Whiting. 



Coal-fish. 



Gurnard. 



Thornback 



Starry 

 Ray. 



I. 

 II. 



Total 



322 

 22 



2,863 

 162 



709 

 1,101 



4 



9 



1 



2 



47 



344 



3,025 



1,810 



4 



9 



3 



47 



In a haul with the small-meshed net, which lasted for an hour, the 

 total number of fishes taken was 1981, belonging to ten species, as 

 follows : — 



Plaice, - - 27 



Lemon Dab, - 1 



Common Dab, - 6 



Long Rough Dab, 2 



Cod, - 45 



Haddock, - 

 "Whiting, - 

 Gurnard, - 

 Sprat, 

 Grey Skate, 



- 1190 



- 701 



6 

 2 

 1 



The total quantity of fish landed, in cwts., was as follows, the time of 

 fishing (including the incompletely recorded drags) being nineteen hours 

 aud five minutes : — 



Cod. Codling. Coal-fish. Haddock. Whiting. Turbot. Plaice. Dabs. 

 25 7^ £ 21 4^ | 7 h =66i 



VI. 



The next series of trawling experiments was made in November, the 

 vessel employed being the steam-trawler u Glenogil," and the places 

 examined were Aberdeen Bay, Burghead Bay, the Dornoch Eirth, between 

 Burghead and Cromarty, and Smith Bank. 



Four hauls were made in Aberdeen Bay on 6th and 7th November, off 

 Newburgh, and between Black Dog and Collieston. In the first, in from 

 eight to ten fathoms, which lasted for three hours, 1383 fishes were 

 secured, 1314 of which were marketable and sixty-nine unmarketable. 

 The former consisted mostly of haddocks and whitings ; of 1013 haddocks 

 taken, 977 were marketable and thirty-six unmarketable, and of 321 

 whitings all but eighteen were marketable. The other fishes comprised 

 one cod, twenty-seven codlings, a few dabs and gurnards, as well as six 

 herrings and two sprats. Only two plaice were caught in this drag. 

 Most of the haddocks belonged to the third and fourth classes, only 135 

 were " large " and sixty-nine " medium." The smallest haddocks amongst 

 the unmarketable measured six and seven inches in length, 



