'
INVESTlGATIONS IN MORAY rnrrn,:1897,
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269 -—
'
-
detrimental to the distribution of the haddock,—no more indeed
'
_
than the constant pursuit of the herring has affected its
@
'
perennial abundance. In the case of both species, periods of
'
,
scarcity occur, and are used by agitators and others to
_'
decline, or, it may be, the utter ruin’ of ' the shery,.and the
…
‘
urgentneed for administrative interference. But both classes
"
-
are ominously silent when boats are overlOaded or nets sunk
_
with their valuable captures, which nature, never falling in
resource in the open sea, sends as an answer to their complaints.,
.
To return_to the consideration of the examination in 1898,
it was found that plaice were much fewer beyond the Frith
3
thanon Smith Bank.
Instèad of 64« per haul, only 3 occurred
*
outside.
Some suppose that a congregation of plaiceens‘ues on -
Ï
'
SmithBank at the breeding season, but it is more probable
that this area is the home of the adult plaice, Which is more or
l
'
Â
less localin its groups, the latter being fed by a‘constant stream
‘
of adolescent forms from the Shallower waters.
Dabs,
the
,
”
other hand, gave exactly the‘same average as on SmithBank,
"
__É
viz. 14! per haul.
Lemon—dabs were not half so numerous in —
«
; the distant area as on Smith Bank, a feature probably due; to
their peculiar distribution, unless it be held that the trawl. .
‘=Singledout this species and the plaice for _Special destructiÿ)n,
L;0ng—rough dabs were absent in 1884, but had an average of
ÎÙï
} 6 per haul in the outer waters, a feature in accordance with the
vi6W just expressed.
Cod weremore
as num‘erous
on Smith Bank in 1884, viz. 343 per haul, whereas
in the open
_
waters in 1898 they had ‘
an average
of only .14« per haul, butî ît_
\
must not be forgotten that manyships hadforwecks scattere_d ,
their shoals.and ‘decimated the stock
69aper‘ haut Ling remamedab0ut’hesmeWhesaukes
occurred only in the buter
Gleyskate and
INVESTlGATIONS IN MORAY rnrrn,:1897,
__
269 -—
'
-
detrimental to the distribution of the haddock,—no more indeed
'
_
than the constant pursuit of the herring has affected its
@
'
perennial abundance. In the case of both species, periods of
'
,
scarcity occur, and are used by agitators and others to
_'
decline, or, it may be, the utter ruin’ of ' the shery,.and the
…
‘
urgentneed for administrative interference. But both classes
"
-
are ominously silent when boats are overlOaded or nets sunk
_
with their valuable captures, which nature, never falling in
resource in the open sea, sends as an answer to their complaints.,
.
To return_to the consideration of the examination in 1898,
it was found that plaice were much fewer beyond the Frith
3
thanon Smith Bank.
Instèad of 64« per haul, only 3 occurred
*
outside.
Some suppose that a congregation of plaiceens‘ues on -
Ï
'
SmithBank at the breeding season, but it is more probable
that this area is the home of the adult plaice, Which is more or
l
'
Â
less localin its groups, the latter being fed by a‘constant stream
‘
of adolescent forms from the Shallower waters.
Dabs,
the
,
”
other hand, gave exactly the‘same average as on SmithBank,
"
__É
viz. 14! per haul.
Lemon—dabs were not half so numerous in —
«
; the distant area as on Smith Bank, a feature probably due; to
their peculiar distribution, unless it be held that the trawl. .
‘=Singledout this species and the plaice for _Special destructiÿ)n,
L;0ng—rough dabs were absent in 1884, but had an average of
ÎÙï
} 6 per haul in the outer waters, a feature in accordance with the
vi6W just expressed.
Cod weremore
as num‘erous
on Smith Bank in 1884, viz. 343 per haul, whereas
in the open
_
waters in 1898 they had ‘
an average
of only .14« per haul, butî ît_
\
must not be forgotten that manyships hadforwecks scattere_d ,
their shoals.and ‘decimated the stock
69aper‘ haut Ling remamedab0ut’hesmeWhesaukes
occurred only in the buter
Gleyskate and