Ocean research and the great fisheries . SCALES OF HEKKING (Meek) (1) One winter ring; (2) two winter rings; (3) three winter rings(4) four winter rings. Magnified about 10 times. p. 168 ADULT HEKRINGS 169 us, the young will have time to form the scale, and the follow-ing winter will be recorded ; but obviously in autumn spawners,the first winter ring will refer to the second winter. He thusfollows the Norse theory that the autumn-spawned herringcarries its birth-mark all through hfe in the shape of a scalemarked with a first winter ring, which is relatively distant fromthe centre of the scale
Ocean research and the great fisheries . SCALES OF HEKKING (Meek) (1) One winter ring; (2) two winter rings; (3) three winter rings(4) four winter rings. Magnified about 10 times. p. 168 ADULT HEKRINGS 169 us, the young will have time to form the scale, and the follow-ing winter will be recorded ; but obviously in autumn spawners,the first winter ring will refer to the second winter. He thusfollows the Norse theory that the autumn-spawned herringcarries its birth-mark all through hfe in the shape of a scalemarked with a first winter ring, which is relatively distant fromthe centre of the scale. The point is important as Storrow isnot convinced that autumn fish can thus he distinguished fromthe spring herring. Between 1911 and 1914 observations were made on twoschools of herring—the Northumberland coast herring whichare caught in drift-nets, and which spawn from the middle ofAugust to the beginning of September ; and the Dogger Bankherring caught in trawls, which spawn from the end of Septem-ber to the middle of October. It
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