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‘INVESTIGÀTIONS IN MORAŸ num, 1893 AND1894. 193
‘
Twenty hauls took place in May and October
.
on the
outer Stations (VII. to XVI.), resulting in a total of
_
shes, or 238 per haul.
Of this number 2,445, or 122 per
haul, were saleable, and 2,315, or 115 per haul, unsaleable. ‘
_
""A considerable divergence in the sh—fauna of these
’
outer stations is at once apparent, and .it would. have been
well if the” Blue—book had devoted some of its energies to
this feature.
Instead of an average of 117 plaice per haul,
the average was only 7, but they were all of the
'
viz., from
to 19 inches.
.
The trawl had got rid of the
'
swarms
of young plaise, so
of the shallower
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_
water.
The ubiquitous dab was in less numbers than in
the inshore stations, but still held a goOd position with an
;
average of 69 per haul.
Moreover, there was an absence of
the line
demarcation as in
the plaice, for considerable,
f
numbers of the unsaleable and smaller saleable sizes “were '
present.
were
about three times as numerous.
Long—rough dabs were more than twice _as
numer0us.‘
0ne
_
of the
greatest contrasts, however, was in the
which had an average
of 31 per
haul’in the rst six stations—,“
and one of 97 in the outer (VII. to XVI.). Cod were also
'
_
more numerous, and the general
distribution of the gurnard . ’
_
_
.
was
indicated by a higher average
.
,
—
—
The foregoing captures
the “ Garland
”
in the Moraÿ
Frith are, at best, but poor
in contrast with the 800 or900
shes secured each haul by the commercial trawler.
“
"
The same number of hauls (12), as in 1898, on the six
inner stations in July and October, 1894,
total, of
3,018 shes, or 251 per haul, a _resultyfallihg short, by 683
of the average per haul‘
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