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INVESTIGATIONS IN FORTE, 1893.
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1257
per haul‘ were saleable and 2,183 or 22 per haul unsaleable.
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Plaice follow with a total of 3,362 or 35 per haul, all being
saleable except 46.
Comparatively few (44) large plaice (over
19 inches) were, as usual, obtained, though the proportion is
larger
than in St Andrews Bay.
Long—rough dabs had za
total of 2105 or 21 per haul, of which 935 or 9 per haul
were
saleable and 1,170 or 12 per haul were unsaleablé;
This sh seems to present in these tables a more eqi1ablef
average
than most
forms throughout the period of eight
years; moreover, its monthly averages do not as a rule sho‘w;
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the accen‘tuation of the warmer months so prominently as
some
speœes.
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The total number of
was 1,497 or 15 per… haul,;_…
of which 1,093 or 11 per haul were saleab‘le and 404 or 4 per,
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haul unsaleable.
Thrice during the period the average had
been the same.
The maximum was in May, and the wa1me1
months had higher numbers.
The tôtal of the lemon—dab
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1,255 or 13 per haul, of which 1,119 Or 12 per
haul were
saleable and 136 or 1 per haul unsaleable. Their numbeis
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Were highest in the Warmer months, though they occurred in
considerable numbers every month.
Of cod there were 1,113
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or
11 per
haul—all saleable.
Whitings followed with 1,0300r
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10 per,haul, & comparatively small number, though
,
than“ in 1886.
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Without exception every station showed a decided inCrease
of the average on. the previous year, the greatest being at
Station VII. west of the Bass, where it was no less than
528 (saleable and unsaleable) per haul, a total of 314- ovel
that of the previous year, an increment which, in 1tselexceèds all the previous hauls_ on
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when it was only % higher (358)StaünVhadanmease
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