of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



61 



Date. 



jriace. 



Depth in 

 Fms. 



Quantity. 



1901. 







Cwts. 



30 March - 



About 60 miles W. of Ekersund, Norway. 



40-50 



14 



8 April - 



About A\j miles b.x!i. or Aberdeen ; miles trom 



4U-DU 



i 



coast. 





1^ ,5 



About /o miles lii. oi tne iNortn oi bxietianfis. 





0 



2 Sept. 



About 45 miles S.S.E. of Aberdeen ; about 35 miles 





9 



1902. 



off coast of Kincardine. 







10 reb. 



About 146 miles E. by N. of Aberdeen. 





1 



22 April - 



About 10-12 miles off Loch Laxford. 





2 



23 „ 



About 15-16 miles S.S.W. of Cape Wrath. 





3 



1 May 



The Minch. 





2 



12 „ 



" Fisher Bank," about 175 miles E. from Aberdeen ; 



40-45 



16 





about 90 miles W. of Ekersund, Norway. 







16 „ 



" Fisher Bank," about 170 miles E. ^ N. of Aber- 



40-45 



1 





deen, and 90 miles from Ekersund. 







21 „ 



risner rJanK, about zuu miles Hi. ^ o. oi Aber- 



4U-i)U 



O 



Z 





deen ; 65 miles Irom Ekersund. 







28 „ 



"Fisher Bank," about 180 miles E. by S. ; about 



35-45 



2 





90 miles W. of Naze, 







7 June - 



About 37 miles S.S.E. of Aberdeen ; 30 miles from 



30-40 



h 





coast. 





10 „ 



70 miles S.E. j 50 miles off coast of Kincardine. 



ACi F,C\ 



o 

 A 



13 „ 



50-60 miles S.S.E. ; about 50 miles E. of St. Abb's 



40-50 







Head, 





o Uctober 



50 miles S.E. by S. 4,5 miles off coast of Kin- 



oO-oo 



1 



5 





cardine. 





Id „ 



ZoU miles Jii. 5 b. , about oo miies on JiiKersuna. 





9 



22 „ - 



27 miles E.S.E. ; about 30 miles off coast of Aber- 



30-40 



5 





deen. 







27 „ - 



180 miles E. by S. ; about 90 miles W. of Ekersund. 



35-37 



1 



6 Dec. - 



170 miles E. by S. ; about 125 miles W. of Naze. 



40 





12 „ - 



200 miles E. ; about 75 miles W. of Ekersund. 



43-46 



1 



The facts are of interest. With the exception of those taken on the 

 West Coast, and six cwts, taken to the east of the north of the Shet- 

 lands, all the pollack landed were caught in two localities — (1) on the 

 eastern and northern part of the Great Fisher Bank, from about 

 sixty to one hundred miles from the south-west coast of Norway, in 

 from thirty-five to fifty fathoms, (2) off" the east coast of Scotland, 

 between Aberdeen and the Tay, at a distance from about twenty to 

 sixty miles from the coast, and in from thirty to fifty fathoms {see 

 Chart, Plate I.), The period in which they were taken was either l3he 

 spring and early summer, from 15th February to 13th June — and 

 mostly in April or May — or September, October, and December, 



The spawning- period of the pollack was found by Holt to be from 

 March to June on the west coast of Ireland, and Williamson obtained 

 the floating eggs in Loch Fyne also in these months, but mostly in 

 March.* On the East Coast ripe fishes were obtained at Shetland in 

 May;t while some authorities, as Dunn and the authors of the 

 Scandinavian Fishes, believe that it spawns towards the end of winter. 

 It appears highly probable, therefoie, that the catches of the pollack on 



* Ibid. 



X TeMh Ann. Hep., Port I/r., p. 288. 



