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TABLE III.— PLAICE. 
Year. 
Blyth Bay. 
Cambois Bay. 
Druridge Bay. 
Alnmouth 
Bay. 
Skate 
Hoods. 
Total. 
Aver- 
age. 
1892 
88, 20, 60 
80. 120, 81 
140 
589 
84 
1893 
59, 87 
50, 00 
87, 73 
11(5, 75 
... 
557 
70 
1894 
(57 
18, 30 
140, 50 
131, 00, 65 
371, 00 
1,028 
103 
1895 
(54. 58 
37. 71 
120, 116, 132 
118, 101 
120, 75 
1,012 
92 
189(5 
85, 08 
7(5 
100, 157, 104 
202, 154 
85, 155 
1,241 
124 
18', )7 
55 
104, 02 
129, 102 
58, 253 
111, 138 
1,012 
112 
1898 
108a 
50c 
105, 70, 83 
117, 195 
95, 154 
819 
117 
1899 
206 
120, 81 d 
24, 101, 170 
7(5, 241 
51c, 109 
964 
120 
a. 4 hours 
' 7 ” > Left out in making up totals and averages. 
d. 5 ,, J 
e. Goswiek and Skate Roads together, one day’s fishing. 
along our coast during the period in which the territorial waters 
have been closed to trawling. It has been seen, however, and will 
be again referred to in the notes on sizes (page 13), that the quality 
has not kept up. We shall, in future, from the method we have 
now adopted for recording the first haul, presently to be referred to, 
he able to present a vigorous and definite contrast in this respect. 
TABLE IV.— DAB. 
Year. 
Blyth Bay. 
Cambois Bay. 
Druridge 
Bay. 
Alnmouth 
Bay. 
Skate 
Itoads. 
Total. 
Aver- 
age. 
1892 
40, 12, 41 
44, 80, 47 
70 
334 
46 
1893 
23, 19 
12, 51 
67, 39 
100, 49 
... 
360 
45 
1894 
23 
11, 18 
54, 40 
63. 51, 35 
22, 30 
347 
35 
1895 
32, 95 
13, 33 
15, 60, 70 
82, 46 
42, 13. 
501 
46 
1896 
44, 78 
81 
68, 68, 123 
117, 44 
44, 10 
(577 
68 
1897 
35 
73, 113 
34, 104 
62, 43 
20, 30 
51 1 
56 
1898 
(57a 
82c 
91, 150, 72 
59, 113 
39, 1(5 
510 
77 
1899 
196 
112, 44d 
65, 60, 157 
76, 139 
2c, 39 
650 
81 
a. 4 hours \ 
c ' 7 ” | Left ou t hi making up totals and averages. 
d. 5 „ ) 
e. Goswiek ; none got at Skate Roads same day, see Table I. and 
note to Table ill. 
Table J\ . gives a similar summary of our returns for dabs. It 
shows that a steady increase in numbers of this species is taking 
place. 1 Lis is, I believe, the experience of some of the fishermen 
along the coast, and it is interestingly correlated with the fact that 
