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_
AND DECENNIAL SUMMARY.
'
16?
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»
..per haul is different from that in
haddock.
Thus, 1,115
were caught in 88 hauls during the colder months or 33 per
haul, while 2,219 were taken in the warmer months or 52
'
per 'haul.
Contrasted with 1887 in which a working period
:
of only three warm m'onths occurs, it is — found that the
average of plaice per haul in that year was 73, the difference
_
in favour of the latter being 21. Here, then, is a case' of
diminution which the advocates for restriction might legiti—
'_’
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mately have brought forward.
On going over the ten years _. -
and
separating the hauls during_the colder months of
_
January, February, March, April, November and December,
and during the rest of the year (warmer months), as in the
accompanying
it is found that the columns for the
'
FORTE.
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Plaice, average par Haul.
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Colder months
Warmer
months
'
'
1886
—
19
44
.
1887
——
73
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«
1888
2
-
58
'
…
-
.
1889
38
,
51à‘é
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'
_
1890
18
-
42
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_
._
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1891
23
44
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1892
‘
20
85
‘
1893
_28
"
40
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»
”
1894
31
-
45
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*
Same …,__ of months andsameno of hauls in each (45),
'
—
.
,
colder and the warmer.
»eonsiderable Variation,
-
_
but it is clear
theystan at the end
of “the period
_
better than they d1datthebegmnmg“ bÿ_ '1Æ-on
the
»
.months and 8 on thewa1mergîihbnth8. 1887 —was a
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.
tionally high yea1butthelelbno reason *tO*
_
resources
of natuiehavebeen111_}5a11y41waÿ5materîally alte1€d
throughout the
place,the
r
:
catch, for 1nstance,l1878æaÿ
that
but the supplysteadykePt“Pboth 18 the. ÉWafm‘“f-l‘fÿa“d