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REVIEW oF TRAWLING REPORT OF— 1884;
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injured that, although they had been returned to the water, it
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is doubtful if
wouldhave survived.
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The remarks made then (1884)on the capture of very young
cod and very young haddocks, therefore,_ remain suitable for
to—day, and at this moment (Oct. 6, 189.8) numerous boxes of ;
young cod about 10 inches in length come from the lines on
the hard ground near Crail; and the same may be said of ;
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those on whiting, ling, hake, gurnards, coal—shes, pollack, bib,
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and poor-cod.
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In the Trawling Report it was stated that large cod 'and
other adult shes were now seldom caught within the limits
of the Bayof St Andrews, and this was in accordance with
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the evidence then obtainable. The use of anemones as bait,
together with the closure ofthe bay, Shows that as many as
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sixty or eighty good cod
occasionally oaught by a single
boat, the lines being buoyed and left in the water all
Some ne congers, which do not appear in the Fishery returns,
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are also ocèasionally obtained off the east rocks.
Moredver,
excellent haddocks are procured in the same’ area early in
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the; year, and for two years (1893 and 18943) small haddocks_
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abounded.
Large green cod also occasionally
out of the
water in pursuit of their prey, and are captured on thebea0h,
while a few .pollack are' got in the salmon—stal_{e nets or
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books.
It would thus appear tha—t further experience leads to
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…a modication of
statement in the Traw—ling Report. rl‘he
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increase in —numbers_captured
been due less to the Closure
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absence of
than to the xed and extensive,
and Special hait.
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The closure of the inshore
St Andrews
must have—Conduced _to the prosperity of the ‘tu—rbÇt andthe
brill of that »neighbourhood,most of the turbot {ranging from
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which 'forînerly Were CaptureŒ
trawle1s
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and reaching the
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