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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
prolific grounds that are not much fished upon, in that numbers of fish are left to die 
of old age or other natural causes. At a certain age the fish become weak and more 
liable to be infested with parasites, all of which is soon apparent from the general 
condition of the victims. This is a trouble which decreases, however, as a bank 
becomes more generally fished. 
Scattering specimens of small halibut of fine quality were found on Baird Bank. 
•Flounders of several species, some of them excellent fish, were also taken in the beam 
trawl wherever it was lowered in Bering Sea. 
