7 
THE TRAWLING EXPERIMENTS. 
We have again to thank Aid. Dent, Chairman of the Committee, 
for the opportunity of conducting a series of trawling experiments, 
and of continuing the work of marking and returning to the sea 
large numbers of our inshore fishes with the object especially of 
determining their migrations. We have also to thank Mr. 
Saunders, Fishery Officer Taylor, and the crew of the “ Stanley ” 
for the valuable help they have given in making the records, and in 
marking the fish. 
In view of the fact that a large amount of space is devoted to a 
consideration of the crab and lobster fisheries of the district, it is 
not proposed to treat the results of the trawling experiments at 
length. We hope that an early opportunity will be found to make 
a careful analysis of the “white ” fisheries of the County, with the 
aid of the Government returns, and by bringing our experimental 
results strictly into line with one another. Meantime we simply 
present the results as heretofore, remarking as we have done before 
that the time given to each of the stations is very nearly the same 
every year. 
Table I. exhibits the catches of marketable fishes, and Table II. 
the conditions under which the experiments were made. 
TABLE I. 
PLACE. 
DATE. 
Turbot. 
Brill. 
o3 
m 
Plaice. 
p 
Flounder. 
Total Elat 
j Fishes. 
1 
Gurnard. 
Skate. 
Total. 
Cambois Bay 
1904. 
June 24th... 
... 
50 
58 
96 
6 
210 
13 
... 
223 
Blyth and Cambois Bays... 
,, 30th ... 
3 
... 
52 
56 
36 
2 
149 
2 
... 
151 
Druridge Bay 
July 6th ... 
10 
1 
37 
199 
93 
340 
17 
357 
Alnmouth Bay 
,, 13th ... 
1 
24 
320 
31 
30 
406 
2 
408 
Skate Boads 
Aug. 1st ... 
23 
... 
25 
260 
55 
12 
375 
20 
395 
Druridge Bay 
,, 10th ... 
12 
1 
18 
206 
170 
5 
412 
42 
1 
455 
Blyth Bay 
„ 17th ... 
... 
... 
10 
240 
100 
20 
370 
40 
410 
Cambois Bay 
„ 24th... 
4 
... 
44 
44 
90 
... 
182 
30 
1 
213 
Alnmouth Bay 
Sept. 7th ... 
13 
... 
11 
120 
49 
35 
228 
9 
... 
237 
