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In Table IV. the total and average catches made at the first 
haul are brought together with reference to each bay, and in 
Table V. the average catches for the corresponding years for the 
whole day’s experiment are presented. The average results for each 
year as shown by these tables have been used to prepare Charts III. 
to VII. In these charts the narrow columns represent the average 
catches of fiat fishes for each year as determined by the first haul, 
and the wide columns the average catches of fiat fishes obtained 
by the whole day’s experiment. In each case, the column is divided 
into sections showing the proportion of each kind of flat fishes. 
Beginning at the bottom of the column the species are indicated 
as follows: — Turbot (upright lines), brill (plain), soles (black), plaice 
(plain), dabs (oblique lines), flounder (plain) With regard to 
these Charts, it ought to be pointed out that while the two classes 
of experiment are complete in the case of Alnmouth and of Druridge 
Bay, they are more or less incomplete for the other places. At 
Skate Roads, there was no complete day’s experiment made in 1900 
nor in 1902, and there was no record obtained of the first haul 
for 1897. The record for Cambois Bay is complete, with the 
exception of 1900, when no whole day’s experiment was made. 
For Blytli Bay, the results are so incomplete with reference to the 
whole day’s experiment that columns have been prepared only to 
represent the first haul. 
Thus bringing together the results of the two classes of experi- 
ment, we find in the first place that the first haul does fairly 
accurately depict the relative proportion of the fishes at a given 
place. 
For example, at Skate Roads, the catch consists for the most 
part of plaice, with smaller numbers of dabs, turbot, brill, soles, 
flounders. The larger proportion of dabs at Druridge, at Aln- 
mouth and at Cambois Bays, is also about equally well shown by 
the first haul as by the larger experiment. This shows, therefore, 
that the proportion of the different classes is much the same for the 
fishes of small as for those of large size. 
The bays are indeed remarkably characteristic whether con- 
sidered from the point of view of the marketable fishes or from that 
of the complete catches. The Southern stations agree very closely 
in the proportion of the fishes, but Skate Roads is very different 
from all the others. It is interesting to note that Goswick Bay to 
the north of Holy Island agrees with Skate Roads in this respect 
(see reports for 1898 and 1899.) We can almost trace, however, 
