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independent of their actual condition in the area. The weather,
mode of working,state of the tide, time of day or other cause
may have intervened.
Moreover, it is sufcient to note that
three winter months, viz., February, November and December,
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are included.
Such results as theforegoing, along with those
obtained in the Forthc0uld have formed no reliable basis for
further closures.
They therefore were_probably made on other
grounds.
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The diminution alludedtc in 1891 continued to mark
captures in 1892, during which ÆO hauls of the trawl were made :
in-eight months of the year, viz., February, March,
May,
June, October, November and December.
These hauls pro—_
duced 2,680 saleablê and 2,277 unsaleable, the average
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saleable shes being 67 perhaul, and of unsaleable 56. . This
result, therefore, falls far short of what was found at the
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commencement of the
operations in 1886, indeed,
little more than half the number… of- saleable shes, and18
fewer unsaleable
haul were
On every stat10n
,
there was a reduction on the numbers of the previous
was
also notëd for its scanty captures.
on
every station except one the average was "less than
1886, the exception being Station II.—where there“ were ét
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more,
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A new Station (VL) was established in Connection withthe
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bay—in aline running obliquely
a north—easterly direction
——from the Oarr Bock to a point a little south of
Bell
Bock. Four hauls of the trawl were made on this
area, viz., in_ April, October, November
and December, the, ,_'Ï
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averagecatch of
and unsaleable shes being
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comparatively
number,
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In reviewing the” kinds of shes, the reporter in the
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for the year points out the decrease in the at shŒ,‘btï
that the numbers ‘Of the
alegleatel
l_th—an in 1891, but the numbers of …thccod are tlfîig; VlZ:m
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1891_20 cod, and,
; —if wie consider i&Ël n°1655
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