12 
for the whole period of eleven years during which the trawling 
experiments have been made — based on Table II. (A). It shows that 
the total flat fishes and the plaice and the dab have improved almost 
steadily since the closing of the in-shore grounds to trawlers, and 
the conspicuous change in their general onward trend this year is 
also strikingly apparent. 
TABLE II. (A). — Average catches of turbot, sole, plaice, dab, 
and the total flat fishes for eleven years. 
Total 
YEAR. 
Turbot. 
Sole 
Plaice. 
Dab. 
l'lat 
Fishes. 
1892 
1 
5 
84 
40 
138 
1893 
5 
20 
70 
45 
140 
1894 
12 
20 
103 
35 
181 
1895 
3 
8 
92 
40 
152 
189(5 
13 
18 
124 
68 
224 
1897 
15 
14 
112 
50 
221 
1898 
11 
2 
117 
77 
215 
1899 
(5 
(5 
120 
81 
220 
1900 
4 
14 
110 
96 
231 
1901 
0 
7 
130 
73 
211 
1902 
4 
21 
1(55 
121 
317 
(B). — Average catches of turbot, brill, sole, plaice, dab, flounder, 
and the total flat fishes for six years — first haul. 
Year. 
Turbot. 
Brill. 
Sole. 
| Plaice. 
Dab. 
Flounder. 
Total. 
Flat 
Fishes. 
1897 
1-7 
... 
2-0 
59-7 
36-1 
73 
1074 
1898 
1-4 
0-0 
0-9 
01-2 
35-4 
8-6 
108-1 
1899 
0-9 
... 
1-3 
51-9 
53 '1 
0-6 
113-8 
1900 
1-1 
0-2 
2*2 
08-0 
39-1 
13-5 
124-7 
1901 
1-4 
0-4 
i-i 
70-8 
20-0 
5-0 
110-7 
1932 
0-5 
0-2 
3-0 
94-8 
86-3 
7 - 9 
192-7 
