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The Herring Fisheries at Milford Haven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. F. Hickling
C. F. Hickling
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Colonial Office
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1. There are three herring fisheries carried on from Milford Haven, namely, a winter drift-net fishery, a spring drift-net fishery, and a trawl fishery in the summer and autumn. These fisheries provide herrings nearly all the year round.

2. There is evidence that the three fisheries are based on the same stock of herrings, and the annual migrations of these herrings, are deduced from statistical data.

3. There is a correlation between the results of the winter drift-net fishery and the following summer and autumn trawl fishery, so that it is possible to make an estimate of the prospects of the important trawled herring fishery some months in advance.

4. There is no evidence that the catches in any one season fluctuate with the moon's phases, but it is found that, in seasons when the moon was full in the last fourteen days of September, the result of the trawl herring fishery has almost always been poor.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1946 , pp. 408 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1946

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