[Reprinted from the Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Fishery Board for 
Scotland, Published May 1910}. 
III.—NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PELAGIC CRUSTACEA — 
IN LOWER AND UPPER LOCH FYNE. By Tuomas Scort, 
me. DF LLS, 
The following notes on the distribution of pelagic crustacea in Lower 
and Upper Lech Fyne describe the results obtained by the examination of 
numerous tow-net gatherings collected during the four years from 1905 to 
1908, both years inclusive. 
The gatherings were collected at several fixed stations located in mid- 
channel, two of them being situated in Lower Loch Fyne and the others 
in the upper portion of the loch. 
The outermost station in Lower Loch Fyne (Stat. I.) is situated in mid- 
channel and nearly due east of the north end of Barmore Peninsula, and 
the other (Stat ITI.) nearly midway between Maol Dubh Point on the west 
and Kilfinan Bay on the east side of the loch. Those in Upper Loch Fyne 
are arranged as follows :—Station III. is distant fully one mile and almost 
directly south-east of the village of North Kames; Station IV. is about 
three-quarters of a mile south-east of Kilmichael Beg ; Station V. is mid- 
way between Pennimore on the west and Newton Bay on the east side of 
the loch ; while Station VI. is situated off the mouth of the Douglas 
Water and distant north by east from Strachur about a mile. 
Nearly six hundred gatherings have beén collected during the four 
years. A small proportion of them (and nearly all in the first year) con- 
sisted of horizontal hauls; the others were vertical—that is, the net was 
lowered to the depth required and then hauled straight up. The gatherings 
are from various depths, regulated by the depth of water at the station 
where they were collected. At the deep-water stations, 7.¢e., the two in 
Lower Loch Fyne and Stations v. and vi. in the Upper Loch, a horizontal 
gathering was collected in the first year at or near the surface, and others 
at mid-water and bottom, while the vertical hauls were usually taken at 
intervals of fifteen fathoms, beginning at fifteen fathoms from the surface, 
down to sixty fathoms, and also one from the bottom if the depth was 
-much over sixty fathoms. 
_ The following is a tabulated list of the Stations, giving the number of 
gatherings, horizontal and vertical, collected at each of them during each 
of the four years :— 
Number of Gatherings 
Ge a Totals 
Numbers of the Stations. SSS a for each 
1905. | 1906.| 1907.| 1908. | Stor. 
Station I. (Barmore) if 49 24 21 10 104 
» II. (Kilfinan) i 29 19 29 23 100 
» III. (Kames) . 31 10 11 16 68 
ee LY (Kilmichael Beg). . 30 10 12 9 61 
»  V- (Newton).. ics 43 21 21 30 pais 
» WI. (Strachur) ae 60 25 24 34 143 
Totals for each Year .. 242 109 118 122 591 
