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Part III. — Eighth Annual Report 
Average number Average number 
of large haddocks of small haddocks 
per shot. and whitings per shot. 
1884 . . . 22-1 38*3 
1885 . . . 23-4 221-5 
1886 . . . 31 8 147-0 
1887 . . . 42-8 208-9 
1888 . . . 62-6 228-4 
1889 . . . 80-1 68-4 
Thus, according to these statistics the number of small haddocks and of 
whitings captured by hook and line greatly exceeds the number of large 
haddocks taken. We have seen that the maximum size of immature 
haddocks is about ten inches (p. 163), and that the limit of size of the 
' small ' haddocks referred to above is also estimated at ten inches. If the 
term 'small' were interpreted rigidly according to this standard, the 
Table would show that line fishermen capture very large quantities of 
immature haddocks. But the Table includes whitings of all sizes, 
as well as small haddocks ; and reasons will be given later, which 
indicate that the haddocks classed as ' small ' include large numbers 
of small adults as well as immature. 
The same result is brought out when the special statistics kept by the 
fishermen themselves are examined.* For instance, one boat in the 
Aberdeen district landed 205 scores of very small haddocks, during the 
last fifteen days of July ; 357 scores in August, 659 in September, 763 
in October, and 1 20 scores in the first two days of November. Thus, a 
single boat, within a period of sixteen weeks, captured considerably above 
20,000 small haddocks. This boat also landed in six days, nearly 4000 
very small whitings, and another boat landed as much as twelve cwts. of 
very small haddocks on a single day. It has been estimated that at 
Large Haddocks. 
litings. 
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cwts. 
cwts. 
cwt. 
cwt. 
cwt. 
cwt. 
cwt. 
cwt. 
cwt. 
cwt. 
1. Territorial, 
2. Extra - Terri- 
torial, . 
3,222 
29,495 
826 
3,141 
8,182 
14,816 
903 
1,158 
4,004 
8,169 
4 
126 
1 
15 
2 
797 
87 
1.653 
685 
415 
176 
1,355 
6,002 
524 
820 
32,717 
3,967 
22,998 
2,061 
12,173 
130 
16 
799 
87 
2,338 
591 
7,357 
1344 
A nstruther. 
1. Territorial, 
2. Extra - Terri- 
torial, m 
11,158 
40,558 
4,717 
2,884 
10,889 
12,629 
889 
1,034 
5,978 
3,786 
3 
167 
1 
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7 
403 
2 
149 
2,144 
572 
537 
5,360 
228 
802 
51,716 
7,601 
23,518 
1,923 
9,764 
170 
40 
410 
151 
2,144 
572 
5,897 
1030 
A berdeen. 
Territorial and 
Extra-Territorial, 
19,258 
1,383 
20,333 
7,761 
14,624 
16 
Grand Total, . 
103691 
12,951 
66,849 
11,745 
36,561 
300 
56 
1200 
238 
4482 
1179 
13,254 j 
2374 
* Vide Sixth Annual Report, pp. 45, 46, 1888. 
