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After a very brief experience, however, the
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Fishery Board
-ceased to examine the last area on the ground that “ it has been
impossible 'to obtain accurate statistics owing to the 11m1ted
Ënature of the area closed, and for the reason that the takes
of the ‘ Garland
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have been extremely variable,and the 1esults
have not been considered of sufcient importance towanant
Aberdeen Bay being further closed for experimental purposes”
There can be little doubt that the cessation of
Aberdeen Bay arose from a misapprehension.
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Carefully considered advice had-been given to the F1shery
Board by Lord Dalhousie, and ”he had exerted himself to pmcure
the necessary supplieS for carrying out the experiments in the_
selected areas—Which he, as Secretary for Scotland, by andby
closed. These eXperiments were to form the basis for future
'shery legislation, and, therefore, their importance was beyond
For thecarrying out of the experiments, the FisheryBoa1d,
possibly from lack of funds, "deviated from the fundamental
advice given, viz. that a powerful ship (like a rst—class
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capable of carrying a
beam, and t to proceed to seagm
rough weather, should be '
procured, together with a smaller
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steam—vessel Or tendeïr for inshore werk. The Board unforjÎtunately
an
inefcient'_ ship’—both as regards the
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eastern seas and
manipulation
a trawl of sufciénts1ze
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; to,, search the grounds in an effectual
This has more
,
O1_æless_ crippled the—" experiments, especially
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as
the workhas
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been: conducted by day,and as a rule by a statœtmal,not
ïl-càyingbutl the experiments lines were selected in the
”nous ;c;1q;æd
and along
the
‘ Gerland -’
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WO1kedat
llltelValsUnf01tuately,no regùlarity as to date,-so. 1mpœtànt
1n mak1ngcompanæns year by year, Was
buttheselectionofthetnmte particular areas was l‘eftftethe
andt1deIndeed1tmaybeaquestwnwhetherpeect