261 Part [11 —Twenty-fifth Annual Report 
Rather more than half the number of stomachs examined were found 
to be empty or the food they contained could not be satisfactorily 
determined ; fully forty-five per cent. of them were the stomachs of 
female fish, and fifty-two per cent. males; a few had their reproductive 
organs so immature that it was considered doubtful whether they were 
milters or spawners. Those found to contain food that could be 
identified numbered two hundred and forty-three. Of these stomachs 
about fifty-two and a half per cent. were those of female fishes, two were 
clad and the others those of male fishes, as shown in the subjoined 
able, 
Taste II. 4 
TaBLE showing the proportion of stomachs containing food and those 
containing no food that could be identified, the proportion of 
males to females, and the names of the districts from which they 
were sent. 
Stemeahe | Stemiche | Totaeot | aa 
Names of the Food. No Food. |? 2nd d and: 
Distr; the Stomachs 
istricts. : 
pee ee ih ee ee 
fag MS SO aR Nae oar PI ge aS re is 
Loch Fyne 42 | 36 | 1 | 26 | 32| O| 68] 68] 1 |137 Stomachs 
Clyde 42 | 41 1} 414 48) 4-4 831 89) S497 a 
Loch Broom 0; 0} 0} 40} 35} Of} 40} 385}, O| 75 “3 
Stornoway 27124) 0} 2) 6) 0} 29) 80'| OF SOS 
Anstruther - 4.8 | 4138 1-0 715) 204. 0 |-23)-38)) Raene My 
Peterhead, Wick, BO Ot O98 a 28 sl ee 5 
Shetland. 
127 j1¥4 | 2 (124 |141 1° 4 1251 255 | 6 
Totals  « 
243 269 512 512 Be 
Description of the Food observed in the Stomachs of Herrings sent from 
Loch Fyne, the Firth of Clyde, Loch Broom, Stornoway, 
Anstruther, and other places. 
In describing the food observed in these herrings’ stomachs, the various 
samples from the same place or district are arranged together under the 
name of the district and according to the date on which they were 
examined, and for convenient reference the names of the districts 
arranged as in Table IT. 
(1) Loca Fyne Herrines. 
December, 1904.—The stomachs of seventeen herrings sent from Loch 
Fyne were examined at this date. They all contained some food, but it 
was so disintegrated by the digestive fluids that only in three examples 
could the nature of it be determined, and even in these to a limited 
extent. The food in these three stomachs appeared to consist exclusively 
of Schizopods belonging to the Euphausiide. Neither the species or 
genus could be satisfactorily determined, but probably they were all 
young WVyctiphanes, norvegica as that species is common in Loch Fyne. 
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