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OF TRAWLING REPORT OF 1884.
:
Ships avOided localities where ’
small shes abounded, whereas
the‘ Garland’ and similar ships did not. They would not clip
_
a second net where
formed the bulk of the haùl.
,
'The trawling observations
do ”with things as they ;
were and are in the
for marketable shes, and the exact
numbers in each case are reliable.
The Statements in the ofcial Report of the Scotch Fishery
Board1 therefore, in regard tolthe-alleged capture of immature
,
shes by the traw1, may with perfect justice be afrmed of Other
methods of shing. For instance, how many mature plaice
caught by the liners in St Andrews Bay ? As a rule not one.
All are immature, yetthe majority are saleable—even to the
high sum of 268. or more per half box of 6 stones.
The experi.
ments carried on with hook and line on board the ‘Garland’? can
soarcely be taken as average examples.
Experience in line—
shing, asit is, proves that young round shes of all kinds will
_
be captured if the,
are shot amongst them, and perhaps of
a smaller size than those caught by the commercial trawl. How
often has it happened that the less enterprising liners shing
inshore have lled their boxes only with young haddocks of 5 ;t0
7 inches proceeding inwards from deep water, while their more
adventurous neighbours had quite as many b0xes
"
‘
haddocks from the offshore.
It has happened indeed that this
capture of the small haddocks day after day has roused the “1re
__
offshore shernien, who made a law for themselves,
the offenders’ beats and ung their small
…
sea,: just as,in morerecent times they did with their
_
shes when
deed the trades—union arrange—
and purchased -mussels at a higher rate than
réaso‘nable,so as to »cOntihuè their calling Very small
‘
_:shes (ag.«of 43inches) are captured everywhere, that is on the
by the ordinary
ofsh1ng
_ Ÿ
l‘o take the: shes in the Order
_
in} which
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thelower
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18thÀnnReportï—3artî19185
_
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OF TRAWLING REPORT OF 1884.
:
Ships avOided localities where ’
small shes abounded, whereas
the‘ Garland’ and similar ships did not. They would not clip
_
a second net where
formed the bulk of the haùl.
,
'The trawling observations
do ”with things as they ;
were and are in the
for marketable shes, and the exact
numbers in each case are reliable.
The Statements in the ofcial Report of the Scotch Fishery
Board1 therefore, in regard tolthe-alleged capture of immature
,
shes by the traw1, may with perfect justice be afrmed of Other
methods of shing. For instance, how many mature plaice
caught by the liners in St Andrews Bay ? As a rule not one.
All are immature, yetthe majority are saleable—even to the
high sum of 268. or more per half box of 6 stones.
The experi.
ments carried on with hook and line on board the ‘Garland’? can
soarcely be taken as average examples.
Experience in line—
shing, asit is, proves that young round shes of all kinds will
_
be captured if the,
are shot amongst them, and perhaps of
a smaller size than those caught by the commercial trawl. How
often has it happened that the less enterprising liners shing
inshore have lled their boxes only with young haddocks of 5 ;t0
7 inches proceeding inwards from deep water, while their more
adventurous neighbours had quite as many b0xes
"
‘
haddocks from the offshore.
It has happened indeed that this
capture of the small haddocks day after day has roused the “1re
__
offshore shernien, who made a law for themselves,
the offenders’ beats and ung their small
…
sea,: just as,in morerecent times they did with their
_
shes when
deed the trades—union arrange—
and purchased -mussels at a higher rate than
réaso‘nable,so as to »cOntihuè their calling Very small
‘
_:shes (ag.«of 43inches) are captured everywhere, that is on the
by the ordinary
ofsh1ng
_ Ÿ
l‘o take the: shes in the Order
_
in} which
_Ï«%:inf :;the1f
thelower
V
18thÀnnReportï—3artî19185