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MIGRATIONS OF INSHORE FLAT FISH. 
The following table shows the numbers and the species of fish 
marked in 1907: — 
Date. 
Place. 
Turbot. 
Sole. 
Dab. 
Flounder. 
Thomback. 
Total. 
Aug. 19 
Druridge Bay . 
X 
1 
1 
3 
>> 24 
Alnmouth Bay 
• • • 
8 
12 
20 
„ 29 
Skate Eoads... 
2 
• • • 
27 
29 
Sept. 4 
Skate Roads... 
o 
1 
34 
1 
39 
„ 6 
Blyth Bay ... 
4 
3 
15 
1 
23 
,, 14 
Druridge Bay . 
• • • 
1 
• • • 
1 
„ 20 
Blyth Bay ... 
10 
1 
49 
• • • 
GO 
» 27 
Skate Eoads... 
2 
21 
23 
22 
5 
9 
160 
2 
198 
The large majority of these have been marked with a label 
bearing the letter « N," and fastened to the fish by a paper fastener. 
The results with reference to the flounders marked in 1906 
proved very interesting. The recaptured fish obtained up to the 
time of publication of the last report included five males which had 
migrated to the coast of Fife. Another male was caught m St. 
Andrews Bay on April 1st. On March 27th, a female was got m a 
catch made by the "Goldseeker" in the Firth of Forth. And 
another female was captured on May 1st in a flounder net in St. 
Andrews Bay. Two were caught on the south side of the Forth, 
but as the labels only were returned it is unfortunately impossible 
to say what sex they were. On February 2nd this year, yet another 
female was taken in a salmon net just north of the River Don in 
Aberdeen. . 
To these returns we have to add the case of the flounder which 
migrated from Skate Roads to the Tweed— about 13 miles— 
between August 29th, 1907, and March 14th, 1908. 
The experiment has clearly indicated that the mature flounders 
migrate northwards along the east coast, the males evidently going 
first or travelling at a greater rate, and also that the migration 
