’
.
_
‘
_
1NVEST1GATIOMS IN FORTE, 1890.
-
145
,
1890.
_
-
-
_
FORTE.
,
-
"
"
'
P1aîce, total
No. of
'. '
'
_
_
,
Hau1s
19—26 in.
12—18 in.
_
7—11 in.
‘
Under 7 in.
Total
9
February
1
140
46
2
189
9
March
—
'
'
76
57
'
2
.185'
9
Apr11
_
2
84
40
1
_
127
9
May
5
129
110
3
.
247
.
7
July
2
156
181
1
340
_
6
.
August
11
-
283
'
‘
162
,
'
5
_
461
5
September ——
111
10
—
121
9
October
5
248
199
1
453
' _
-
7
November
2
235
38
—
275
'
_
_9
December
_2
_
76
11
—
89
,
-
79
30
15îs
8—54
-
sr ANDREWS BAY.
'
.
_
Plaice, total 5070.
No. of
-
'
'
,
'
Hau1s
.
19—26 in.
12—18 in.
7—11 in.
5—6% in.
Total
10
March
1
329
464
6
800
5_
May
1
208
427
3
639
5
August
——
197
2464
725
3386
,
5
_
October
_
114
116
3
233
_
_5
"
December :
_.__1
12 -
30
2
859
3472
_
-
_
While 79 hauls of the trawl produce but 2,437 plaice of all
kinds
in the extensive area of the Forth, 30hauls in St
_
Andrews Bay give more than double, viz.,5,070. The appor—
—
'tionment of the various sizes of plaice is equally divergent.
-
Thus of - large plaice _19—26 inches in length, the breeding
.
plaiœ of the areas, one occurs in every two or three hauls in the
Forth with its deeper waters, and only one in fteen hauls in
_
St Andrews Bay.
plaice from 12—18 inches, a very
'
valuable 'marketable size, the Forth produces
less than
-
1,538, considerably more than half its total or 19 per haul,
,
,
St Andrews Bay giving 859 or 28 per haul. The maximum
_
occurred in August in the Forth, and in St Andrews Bay in
,
March; the minimum in-March and December (76) in— the
‘
Forth, and in December in St Andrews Bay (11).
Of _plaice
—
from 7—11 inches the enorm0us numbers in St Andrews Bay
'
are. clearly brought out, .for whereas 79 hauls in the Forth
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