. Contributions to Canadian biology and fisheries. Fisheries; Marine biology. 13 Both were I'oiind on ihc coast of Maine (FiKUi-e 14). The next set from which returns were received, Set D, consisted of 100 2 oz bottles with ])ararfined cork stoppers and without drags. They were spaced evenly between ("ape Spencer and Parker's Cove on August 21. Of these twx'nty wxtc found within the Bay, all on the coast of New Brunswick west of Cape Spencer, those set out on the Nova Scotia side tending to come across the Bay. Figures o, 0 and 7 show the positions where these bottles were set out and fou
. Contributions to Canadian biology and fisheries. Fisheries; Marine biology. 13 Both were I'oiind on ihc coast of Maine (FiKUi-e 14). The next set from which returns were received, Set D, consisted of 100 2 oz bottles with ])ararfined cork stoppers and without drags. They were spaced evenly between ("ape Spencer and Parker's Cove on August 21. Of these twx'nty wxtc found within the Bay, all on the coast of New Brunswick west of Cape Spencer, those set out on the Nova Scotia side tending to come across the Bay. Figures o, 0 and 7 show the positions where these bottles were set out and found. The interrupted lines in the figures are drawn merely to join the place of finding with that of setting out, and are not intended to show a course which the bottle may have taken. Five out of the eight bottles represented were returned by September 4 or within two weeks. The prevailing and strongest winds during the latter part of August as determined by the Meteorological Station at Pt. Lepreaux were south to south-east; the maximum velocity was 33 miles per hour and occurred before the bottles were put out. Thus the wind could not have been responsible for the drift of the bottles westward. Three of these bottles were found so soon after they were set out that their rate of travel is significant as establishing a minimum rate for the current in which they were carried. Bottle 67, which was set out near Cape Spencer on August 21, was found three days later in Musquash Harbour, a distance of about 15 nautical miles per day. Bottle 75, which was set out at about the same time and further from shore, was found four days and six hours later at a distance of about 20 nautical miles, giving a rate of a little less than 5 nautical miles per day. Bottle 96, set out also on the same day about a third of the way across from Cape Spencer to Parker's Cove, w^as found six days later at Little Lepreaux, near Point Lepreaux, a distance of about 30 nautical miles, giving again a rate of a
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