162
INVEST1GAT10NS IN FORTE, 1894.
’
'
_
'
aùd yetÏ not sufciently high to support the theory of gradual
__
accumulation.
Of this number 16,960 or 226 per haul were
saleable, the largest entry during the ten years, and 3,610 or \:__:_=
48 per
haul unsaleable, one of the lower entries in the list and
_—
no less than 195 under the unsaleable of 1887.
These gures
_;
would appear
to give no support to the view that excessive « :
trawling in the offshore grounds has steadily diminished _the .
_—
food—shes of the Forth. The year was a fair test in regard
to periods and equality of hauls, and the result is therefore of
”—
special interest.
During the ve colder months 33 hauls of the trawl occurred,
producing a total of 8880 shes or 117 per haul, whilst the
.
42 hauls in the warmer months gave 16,690 or 397 per haul, a
sufcient corroboration of the divergent conditions of these
_-’
periode.
Such also demonstrates how misleading it is to use
the statistics of 1897, which had no colder month at all, on the
.
one hand to illustrate the immediate inuence of ' the closure,
:
and on
“the other the gradual deterioration of the inshore
waters since that date by the unreStricted shing in the waters
beyond.
‘
.
_
'
.The preceding facts are brought out quite as clearly in the '
-
case of the haddock, which, as usual, is at the head of the list
of captures of the year with 7,033 or 93 per haul, onlyone
under last year.
This average appears to be much bel0w that
of 1887, in Which haddocks were 129 per haul, and, therefbre,
Ostensibly forms a basis for demanding further closures so as
control
the “ spaWning grounds
”
of the parent—shes, which
are being
by the trawlers, and general free shing
_
"
iu“the Open waters.
But if we contrast the numbers, caught
-
during the ve… colder months, viz. 64355, with those” of the
,
wartner months (which alone formed the Working period in
'
1887), ViZ. 6,598, or 13 per 'haul against 157 per haul, some
-
‘hesitation may reasonably
'
be felt
recommending such
Ï
,
methods of, controlling the important subject of the sheries of
«
Not Only is the average
1895 found to be
higher than
1887»
eXc‘eeds
; ”them b°l» f9r
aVe“raäeài *iäheî warmermonths was199 [ In
-
,
*
-
"
«
a“—*
«
|“
H
“
INVEST1GAT10NS IN FORTE, 1894.
’
'
_
'
aùd yetÏ not sufciently high to support the theory of gradual
__
accumulation.
Of this number 16,960 or 226 per haul were
saleable, the largest entry during the ten years, and 3,610 or \:__:_=
48 per
haul unsaleable, one of the lower entries in the list and
_—
no less than 195 under the unsaleable of 1887.
These gures
_;
would appear
to give no support to the view that excessive « :
trawling in the offshore grounds has steadily diminished _the .
_—
food—shes of the Forth. The year was a fair test in regard
to periods and equality of hauls, and the result is therefore of
”—
special interest.
During the ve colder months 33 hauls of the trawl occurred,
producing a total of 8880 shes or 117 per haul, whilst the
.
42 hauls in the warmer months gave 16,690 or 397 per haul, a
sufcient corroboration of the divergent conditions of these
_-’
periode.
Such also demonstrates how misleading it is to use
the statistics of 1897, which had no colder month at all, on the
.
one hand to illustrate the immediate inuence of ' the closure,
:
and on
“the other the gradual deterioration of the inshore
waters since that date by the unreStricted shing in the waters
beyond.
‘
.
_
'
.The preceding facts are brought out quite as clearly in the '
-
case of the haddock, which, as usual, is at the head of the list
of captures of the year with 7,033 or 93 per haul, onlyone
under last year.
This average appears to be much bel0w that
of 1887, in Which haddocks were 129 per haul, and, therefbre,
Ostensibly forms a basis for demanding further closures so as
control
the “ spaWning grounds
”
of the parent—shes, which
are being
by the trawlers, and general free shing
_
"
iu“the Open waters.
But if we contrast the numbers, caught
-
during the ve… colder months, viz. 64355, with those” of the
,
wartner months (which alone formed the Working period in
'
1887), ViZ. 6,598, or 13 per 'haul against 157 per haul, some
-
‘hesitation may reasonably
'
be felt
recommending such
Ï
,
methods of, controlling the important subject of the sheries of
«
Not Only is the average
1895 found to be
higher than
1887»
eXc‘eeds
; ”them b°l» f9r
aVe“raäeài *iäheî warmermonths was199 [ In
-
,
*
-
"
«
a“—*
«
|“
H
“