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Preliminary Note on Trawling Experiments in certain Bays on the South Coast of Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

F. B. Stead
F. B. Stead
Affiliation:
Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, Assistant Naturalist on the Staff of the Marine Biological Association.
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Extract

The following pages are intended to be preliminary to a fuller report which I shall hope to publish later on. For the present I shall confine myself to an account of the objects in view of which these investigations were begun, and of the method by which they have so far been carried out. I further propose to append a brief summary of some of the facts ascertained, reserving a more detailed statement for a future occasion.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1896 , pp. 90 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1896

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page 90 note * To what extent such illegal fishing has gone on, I am not in the position to say. But that it would be impossible to draw scientific conclusions as to the effect of closing the bays when the bays have not, in fact, been closed, is sufficiently obvious.

page 92 note * By the “middle,” or “mid” length, I mean the length on either side of which half the fish measured were found to lie.

page 94 note * The possible influence of differences in the depths at which hauls were taken in the two bays has not been overlooked; but a comparison of the soundings taken does not appear to favour such an explanation of the differences between their respective populations.

page 95 note * Twelfth Annual Report of Scotch Fishery Board, iii. p. 307.Google Scholar