CONTENTS. 



General Statement ...... 



The Influence of Beam-Trawling .... 



The Hatching and Rearing of Food Fishes . 

 The Currents in the North Sea, and their Relation to Fisheries 

 The Life-Histories and Development of the Food Fishes . 

 The Distribution of Pelagic Eggs 



Seine-Net Fishing for Herrings .... 



The Oyster Beds in the Firth of Forth 

 The Rearing of Larval and Post-Larval Plaice and other Fiat-Fishes 

 Marine Diatoms ...... 



The Invertebrate Fauna ..... 



Physical Investigations ..... 



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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 



I. Report on the Trawling Experiments of the ' Garland,' and on 



the Statistics of the East Coast Fisheries relating thereto . 17 



Introductory . . . . . . . .17 



The Trawling Experiments of the ' Garland ' in 1896 . . 18 



1. The Moray Firth . . . . . .18 



2. The Firth of Clyde ...... 22 



Special Statistics of Fish caught by Line Fishermen . . 19 



1. Statistics showing the Quantities of Fish caught by Line 



Fishermen within the Moray Firth . . . .20 



Table A. — Showing Summary of Fish taken by the 'Garland' 



in Trawling Operations in 1896 . . . .24 



Table B. — Analysis of the ' Garland's' Statistics relating to the 



relative Abundance of Fish . . . .30 



Table C. — Record of Observations made on Board the 'Garland' 



during 1896 . . . . . 33 



1. Fish caught ...... 33 



2. Pelagic Fauna . . . . . .64 



3. Invertebrate Fauna ..... 7 

 .4. Physical Observations » , . . 89 



