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CONTENTS, 



PAGE 



General Statement, ....... 7 



Investigations on board Trawlers, .... 8 



The relative Abundance, Distribution, and Migrations of the 



Food Fishes, ....... 9 



The Hatching and Rearing of Fishes, . . . . 10 



The Development and Life-History of the Shore Crab, . . 11 



The Invertebrate Fauna, . . . . .12 



The Distribution, &c., of the Angler, . . . .13 



The Food of Fishes, . . . . . .13 



SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 



I. Investigations on the Abundance, Distribution and Migrations 

 of the Food Fishes. By Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton, F.R.S.E., 

 Scientific Superintendent (Plate I.), . . .15 



I. Investigations on Board Steam Trawlers — 



1. The Moray Firth and Aberdeen Bay in May, . . 16 



2. The Deep-water Grounds in May, . . .19 



3. The Great Fisher Bank and North-Eastern Grounds 



in June, . . . . . .25 



4. The Moray Firth and Aberdeen Bay in October, . 30 

 The Relative Efficiency of the Beam and Otter Trawl, . 30 



II. The Special Statistics of North Sea Fisheries, . . 37 



III. The Distribution, Migrations, &c., of the Food Fishes — 



Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), . , . .40 

 Flounder (P. flesus), ..... 42 



Common Dab (P. limanda), . . . .44 



Lemon Dab (P. microcephalus), . . . .46 



Witch (P. cynoglossus\ . , . . .49 



Megrim (Lepidorhombus whiff\ , . . .50 



Scald-fish (Platophrys laterna), . . . .51 



Turbot (Bothus maximus), . . , .51 



Brill (P. rhombus)^ . . . . .51 



Halibut (Hippoglossus vulgaris), . . . .53 



Little Sole {Solea lutea), . . . . .53 



Sole (Solea vulgaris), . . . . .54 



Cod (Gadus callarias), . . . . . 54 



Coal-fish (G. virens), . . . . ,59 



Pollack (G. pollachius), . . , . .60 



