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INVESTIGATIONS IN sr ANDREWS BAY, 1891.
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1889 only 43 whitings were captüred, yet in 1888 there were
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258.
In regard to the gurnards, it may be observed that they
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were caught on" almost all the stations chiey in _May and
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August,—thinning off in March on the one hand and in
October and December on the other.
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Those who had faith in the
muSt have been perplexed in 1891, in which the number of
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hauls was 33, made in February, July, August, October, Novem—
ber and December.
Of saleable shes there were 3,668, of
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.unsaleable 1,665, giving a total of 5,333——0r 161 per haul,a
result cohsiderably less than any year since 1886, when the bay
was
closed.
The average
number of saleable shes per haul
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was
111 and of
50.
At Station I. the average
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catch Was the lowest recorded—less by 32than in 1886. At
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Station II. the number was only about half that obtained
during the three previous years and a third that of 1887.
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It is true it was
than that of 1886, but the"
number then was very low (73). At Station III. the numE
her, like that of Station I., was the lowest yet obtained.
At
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Station IV. the same result happened, the number being
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less than 122 below” that of 1886. By one of the usual Variations -
the… shes obtained at Station -V.-exceeded those of all except
1887.
The only round shes in consider‘able numbers Were
gurnards, which, totally absent in February, occurred during
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the other months, though only at Station I. in December. ' The,
largest number were captured in November. The Occurrence
of 71 more or less adult herrings scattered Over every Station in
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February ShOWS “that this sh may Spawn _in
thu_s—
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the hordes of yOung 11èrringsin March will be more read-y
explained than by any other supp0Sitioh. They were ch1ey
taken at Stations
I. and V. near. the Southern entrance to the
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bay.
The 20
la1gæ,
go
t Only in F eb1ua1y
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andDecember—Shcîwingtatdu11ngthe warm—er «months they
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