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The Scottish, Newfoundland, and United States Reports

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Extract

ArtificialHatching ofFishEggs.—The Scottish Report, whose title is given above, is stated to refer to the year 1894; but as a matter of fact, a great deal of the work recorded in it was carried out during the earlier portion of 1895. This is the case with the operations of the Dunbar Hatchery, described by Mr. Harald Dannevig, the Manager of that establishment. We find that 44,085,000 eggs of plaice were collected last spring, and from these 38,615,000 fry were obtained, and liberated in the sea. This shows a loss of only 12 per cent, in the process of hatching. But large as the numbers appear, it should not be forgotten that the above number of eggs represents the produce of only 220 female fish, reckoning 200,000 eggs to each, which is a low estimate, for it has been proved by Dr. Fulton that the larger female plaice produce each from 300,000 to 500,000 eggs in one season.

Type
Recent Reports of Fishery Authorities
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1896

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References

page 208 note The following are the average numbers of fish taken per shot of the trawl, in two periods of four years:—