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experiments have evidenced in the past that during the summer 
the bays gain greatly in their fish population. This bay benefits 
from the in-shore migration to a most conspicuous degree. 
Alnmouth Bay shows this year, curiously encfugh, a decrease 
compared with the four previous years, affecting plaice and dabs, 
but there was an increase of soles. 
The weather prevented us this year, as in 1900, from making 
a lull experiment at Skate Roads, but the results, so far as they 
refer to three single hauls, are given in the next section. 
