of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



327 



Ampiiipoda. 



Orchomene serrata, Boeck, should be 



Tnjphosa ciliata, G. 0. Sars = Tryphosa nana, Kroyer, Norman, 

 Mus. Nor., part iii. p. 14 (1886). 

 Moera grossimana, Mont., should be 



Mcera loveni, Bruzelius, S. Bate, Cat. Amphip. Crust. Brit. Mus., 

 pi. 193, p. xxxv. fig. 1 (1862). 



For Gulland Bay, read South Bay. 



Note. — Since this paper was written I have been informed by Dr A. M. 

 Norman, that among the Boreophausia I sent him from the Moray Firth 

 for identification are one or two specimens of Boreoplmusia inermis, Kroyer, 

 new to the east coast, and which has just been added to the British fauna 

 by Brook and Hoyle, who found it on the west of Scotland ; and that a 

 specimen of Siriella norvegica, G. O. Sars, hew to Britain, was found 

 among some tow-net material collected by me in the Moray Firth, 

 February 1889. 



VI. MUSSEL-FARMING AT MONTROSE. By J. H. Fullarton, 

 M.A., B.Sc, and Thomas Scott. (Plate VII.) 



I. Introductory. 



The difficulty which line fishermen are experiencing in finding a sufficient 

 quantity of bait at a reasonable cost, the destruction of valuable mussel- 

 scalps in recent years resulting in a continual diminution of available 

 mussels, and the comparative or almost total neglect of attempts to increase 

 the supply of mussel and other animal forms used as bait, are accentuating 

 the impoverished condition of those fishing communities dependent on 

 the cod and haddock fisheries. These facts have been recognised in the 

 appointment of the Mussel and Bait Committee, and have been amply 

 illustrated in the evidence given by witnesses from the chief fishing 

 centres. 



The Committee Reports : — 1 We believe that were the mussel-beds of 

 1 Scotland in general treated in a similar manner to those in the Montrose 

 * Basin, the bait question, of such importance to Scottish fishermen, would 

 ' be solved, and that Scottish beds alone would yield an abundant supply 

 4 for all Scottish requirements.' 



The Scientific Report Committee of the Fishery Board for Scotland 

 have accordingly asked us to make a survey of the Montrose beds, and 

 explain the methods of cultivation which have been found so successful 

 there. We have made personal examination of the biological, geological, 

 and physical aspects of the Montrose Basin and of its outlet the Southesk, 

 and have enquired into the organisation and mode of working of the 

 beds both on the north and south sides of the River Southesk. 



The Montrose Basin is a shallow tidal lagoon extending from the Bridge 

 of Dun on the west to the town of Montrose on .the east. It covers an 

 area of about three square miles, but only a limited acreage can be utilised 

 for the cultivation of mussels. A most cursory examination forces the 

 conclusion on a visitor, acquainted with the conditions requisite for the 

 growth of mussels, that only energy, perseverance, and methodical regula- 



