Excerpt from Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, Northumberland: Report for the Year Ending June 30th, 1918 Samples Of herring were Obtained from Berwick, Sea Houses and North Shields, altogether amounting to a total of herring, and from the chart indicating the localities of capture it will be seen that the district was fairly completely covered. The samples again proved to be very similar in Size and in age composition, thus evidencing that the Northumberland herring belong to one school. As in the previous season herrings with four winter rings were predominant; an interesting and note worthy feature. Up to 1915 our investigations showed that the herring consisted for the most part Of four year herring that is with three winter rings; in 1916 and 1917 the school has presented a majority of five year Old herring (with four winter rings). It is fortunate that we have persevered with the herring investigation at this time for it may turn out that the advance in age composition is due to the restricted fishing. Reasons are given for the conclusion that Spawning took place in the northern part of the district at the end of August and the beginning of September. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.