_
194
INVÈSTIGAT10NS IN MORAY FRITH, 1893 AND 1894.
comparison with the plaice being interesting in connection
:
with the notion that they and the long—rough dabs supplant'
the plaice from the facility with which the small breeding
_
individuals escape through the meshes of the trawl, whereas
the breeding plaice cannot
The evidence here is not in
:
faVour of this view.
Haddocks were 10 instead of 31 per
'
haul, and gurnards 13 instead of 22 per haul. The experi—
:
ments therefore resulted in a moderate capture of shes.
All the stations showed a reduced number, except IV.,
-
where the total was 38 over the previous year, and second
_
in the series of nine years.
:
If little success attended the work of the “ Garland
”
on the
:
inner Stations, it was this year very different on the Outer
:
stations (VH. to XVI.), where the same number of hau1s Î
(20) as last year yielded 2,392 more shes, or a total of 0;
7,152, or 857 per haul.
Of this number 5,556, or 277 per ;
haul, were saleable, and 1,596, or 79 per haul, unsaleable.
'ï
The
foreg0in g increase was chiey due to the large
numbers of haddocks, which amounted to 3,172, Or 158 per
haul.
These were chiey captured in October, the totalf'or‘
,
that month on the ten outer stations being 2,204, and they
were saleable shes of
inches.
The contrast with the—
inner stations is sufcieiatly marked, for the twelve hauls
in July and October produced a total of only 115 of the same
size.
The enormous number of haddocks evidently peopling
the neighb0urhood, and many of Which would survive to in-—_
«
crease the species, shows how capable nature is to
food—shes
in the Open sea. The Moray Frîth alone could, 1n
a11 probability,
have supplied in October and the subsequent
‘months of 1894; sufcient haddooks for all the eets from
Aberdeen, and that without causing any undue strain on the
permanent abundahce of the species. They presented them_
selVes there
at that convenient sea—son, yet due advantage was
11015 taken Of_the opportunity, and the reduced average of the
’
:wcèee‘ding
two years showed that perhaps such opportumtœs
'
d0h0t occurëvery
«A favourite argument ofsomeœthäî
the tdtal for the, ‘hadd‘oc3k
goes ». 011
…
anuây inéréasigs for r'àtr=äny 1atemæutænmg i‘tsf groûîî w1th
194
INVÈSTIGAT10NS IN MORAY FRITH, 1893 AND 1894.
comparison with the plaice being interesting in connection
:
with the notion that they and the long—rough dabs supplant'
the plaice from the facility with which the small breeding
_
individuals escape through the meshes of the trawl, whereas
the breeding plaice cannot
The evidence here is not in
:
faVour of this view.
Haddocks were 10 instead of 31 per
'
haul, and gurnards 13 instead of 22 per haul. The experi—
:
ments therefore resulted in a moderate capture of shes.
All the stations showed a reduced number, except IV.,
-
where the total was 38 over the previous year, and second
_
in the series of nine years.
:
If little success attended the work of the “ Garland
”
on the
:
inner Stations, it was this year very different on the Outer
:
stations (VH. to XVI.), where the same number of hau1s Î
(20) as last year yielded 2,392 more shes, or a total of 0;
7,152, or 857 per haul.
Of this number 5,556, or 277 per ;
haul, were saleable, and 1,596, or 79 per haul, unsaleable.
'ï
The
foreg0in g increase was chiey due to the large
numbers of haddocks, which amounted to 3,172, Or 158 per
haul.
These were chiey captured in October, the totalf'or‘
,
that month on the ten outer stations being 2,204, and they
were saleable shes of
inches.
The contrast with the—
inner stations is sufcieiatly marked, for the twelve hauls
in July and October produced a total of only 115 of the same
size.
The enormous number of haddocks evidently peopling
the neighb0urhood, and many of Which would survive to in-—_
«
crease the species, shows how capable nature is to
food—shes
in the Open sea. The Moray Frîth alone could, 1n
a11 probability,
have supplied in October and the subsequent
‘months of 1894; sufcient haddooks for all the eets from
Aberdeen, and that without causing any undue strain on the
permanent abundahce of the species. They presented them_
selVes there
at that convenient sea—son, yet due advantage was
11015 taken Of_the opportunity, and the reduced average of the
’
:wcèee‘ding
two years showed that perhaps such opportumtœs
'
d0h0t occurëvery
«A favourite argument ofsomeœthäî
the tdtal for the, ‘hadd‘oc3k
goes ». 011
…
anuây inéréasigs for r'àtr=äny 1atemæutænmg i‘tsf groûîî w1th