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There were practically no fish marked at the trawling 
experiments during the past season, but interesting recaptures 
of fish marked in previous seasons are furnished. A turbot was 
caught after three years’ and another after nearly four years 
absence. The majority of the flounders, as before, were senl 
back to us from the coast of Fife. 
One hundred lobsters were marked at Beadnell, and 
thirty-eight at Sea Houses, at or about the end of the year 1907. I 
Of the former thirty-six were recaptured in less than nine 
months, and of the latter three were recaptured in six months or 
less. None had migrated from the regions where the lobsters 
were caught and liberated. 
A further consideration of the question of a close time for 
crabs during the season when a large percentage are soft or 
white, leads to the conclusion that the area would benefit, and 
the fishermen would benefit, if fishing for crabs was stopped 
during the period, viz., October 1st to December 31st. 
Attention is drawn to the fact that the attempt on the part 
of the Sea Fisheries Committee to obtain complete statistics by 
including Alnmouth, Amble and Cresswell, has come to an end 
on account of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries refusing to 
include these stations on its list. 
Miss A. M. Carr, B.Sc., contributes two papers to this 
Report on the work she has been doing at the laboratory (1) on 
