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often from grounds over which the district concerned has no control. 
It might be made plain, however, that the three-mile limit, as a 
protection to spawn, and more especially to spawning fish, is of 
very little service. Districts, for one thing, should have at least a 
wider area of jurisdiction, and, once the near spawning grounds can 
be specified, prohibition during the spawning season would, we feel 
certain, be of much benefit as regards the in-shore region. At the 
same time, artificially fertilized eggs could be added to the sea at 
such places, and a better hatching and rearing ground than the 
open sea it would be difficult to get. M 
OTHER FISH. 
Our records show that haddock were never got this year. 
Whiting were only observed in the stomach of the turbot at the end 
of the season, and an immature specimen was got in the trawl. 
Thornback skate were got — see returns — on several occasions. 
Anglers were common in all the bays. The dog fish (Acanthias) 
was not got at all this season. A lemon dab, or lemon sole 
as it is usually called ( Pleuronectes microcephalus), was obtained in 
Cambois Bay, where a single specimen was also obtained last year. 
The lesser weever was got in the trawl once or twice; the great 
weever once, on the 19th August, and it was kept alive in the 
Laboratory until the 7th October, when it managed to jump out of 
the tank, and was consequently found dead. A large cat fish 
(8 ft.) was caught in our last haul at Cambois Bay on the 14th July. 
Abnormal Fisu. — At Skate Roads, on the lltli August, a turbot 
was got almost entirely pigmented on the under side. A flounder, 
14£ x Hi inches, had the eyes on the left side, instead of the 
right. Several of the anglers were found with tumours in the 
stomach containing nematodes. A plaice obtained in Cambois Bay, 
on the 2nd August, was pigmented on the under side in exact, 
imitation of the upper side ; about one-lialf (the caudal end) was thus 
coloured, nearly the whole of the ventral (anal) fin, a great part of 
the dorsal fin, a blotch extended up from the left pelvic fin, and 
several isolated round areas occurred as well. 
The invertebrate forms got by the trawl, worth mentioning, are 
the great quantity of heart urchins ( Spatangus purpureus) got dead at 
Alnmouth Bay on 7th July, in every haul of the trawl, and again 
in much less quantity at Cambois Bay, on 14tli July; Maetra 
stultorum, Cyprina islandica , occasionally; Donax tncnculns, in the 
dredge used to take up a sample of the bottom; Ilyas araneus 
