15 
DAD. 
June 80 
... Druridge Bay ... 
Midwater.. 
Common. 
July 14 
... Cambois Bay ... 
n ••• 
Fairly common. 
Aug. 21 
... 2/8 miles off Blyth 
Surface ... 
One, dead. 
21 
,, Jl 
... M 
Midwater.. 
One. 
GURNARD. 
June 80 
Druridge Bay ... 
Surface ... 
One. 
„ 30 
• • • 1* • • • 
Midwater.. 
Numerous. 
July 7 
Alnmouth Bay... 
Surface ... 
Fairly common. 
„ 7 
• • • M * • • 
Midwater.. 
Common. 
14 
Cambois Bay ... 
Surface ... 
1 or 2. 
„ 14 
• • • J) • • • 
M id water .. 
Common. 
„ 28 
Druridge Bay ... 
Surface ... 
A few. 
„ 28 
... 9| • • • 
Midwater.. 
Jf 
It is only necessary to say in regard to the preceding tabulated 
statements of the pelagic eggs taken this year, that we add the dab 
and the gurnard to the forms previously recorded as spawning 
in shore on this part of the coast. It will be seen that all had 
practically disappeared before the end of July. 
Two eggs of the whiting were obtained in the mid-water net at 
Druridge Bay on June 20th. These, and that of the sole found in 
Cullercoats Bay, on the 22nd July, must be looked upon as stray- 
specimens, which have had time to be brought into in-shore waters 
before hatching. But it ought to be mentioned that all the eggs, 
practically, were got ijuite close to the shore — at least as close as is 
practicable with a steamer. Attempts made late in the season, 
farther out, gave us no new eggs : we have only to satisfy ourselves 
by a few trials with the surface and mid- water nets in the earlier 
months of the year, inside and outside the three-mile limit, to he 
able to report on the possibilities of the in-shore waters with regard 
to spawning. There is, however, little likelihood that we shall be 
able to add much to the list now given of the fishes which spawn 
within the limit. We are, therefore, still obliged to recognise that 
outside the limit the most valuable fishes are liable to destruction 
at the time of their spawning migration — and this is just the 
time when their preservation is most desired. This destruction, as 
I reported to the N.K. District some time ago, “ cannot be controlled 
at present, for the reason that it occurs outside the area of jurisdic- 
tion, and also because the currents which carry the spawn bring it 
