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FISHING STATIONS. 



SCOTLAND. 



Metliods of fishing in use — Partial change from open to decked fishing boats 



— Advantages of the latter — Fishery Board returns of boats and men in 

 the herring and white fisheries — Board of Trade returns imperfect — Leith. 



^ to Kirkcaldy — Fisheries in the Firth of Forth — Newhaven cod and had- 

 dock lines — Dandy-line fishing at Dunbar — Important herring fishery at 

 Eyemouth, North Berwick, Anstruther, &c. — Winter fishery — Scaning 

 for sprats — Beam-trawling — Mackerel fishing — Lobsters and crabs — 

 Dundee to Peterhead — Herring fishing and longlining — " Finnan 

 baddies " — Steam-tugs at Aberdeen for towing the fishing boats — Advan- 

 tages of the system — Banff to Wick — Extensive drift and line fisheries 



— Sprat fishing in Beauly Firth — Scottish fishing boats, description of — 

 Increased size and peculiar rig — " Scaith" on the Banff coast — Importance 

 of Wick as a station — Measuring the herrings — Classification of the fish 



— Scottish Fishery Board — Curing, packing, branding, exportation — Im- 

 mense number of herrings caught — Winter fishery — Exposed situation of 

 Wick — Fishery harbours — Importance of — Difficulties in constructing 

 them — Drift - nets — Sheep - skin buoys — Kirkwall to Lerwick — 

 Orkney fisheries uncertain — Frequent bad weather — Line-fisheries — 

 Dried fish for the Spanish market — Abundance of crabs and lobsters — 

 Orkney fishing boats — Shetland fisheries — Importance of the line-fishery 



— Herring fishing uncertain — Longlines and handlines — Distant fishing 

 grounds — Cod-smacks — Line-fish salted and dried — Grimsby smacks at 

 Faroe — Discovery of Eockall — Difficulty in fishing there — Cod fishery 

 at Davis' Straits — Shetland boats, Norway yawls ■ — Taaf-net — Whales 

 at Shetland — Industry and enterprise of the Shetlanders — Returns of 

 Shetland cured fish — Markets. 



The fisbiDg population on the coast of Scotland is a 

 numerous one, but, with some exceptions, the stations 

 are small and the people much scattered. The methods 

 of fishing pursued there are much the same as those 

 already noticed on the English coast ; the drift and 

 line fisheries, however, far exceed the others in extent 

 and importance, and may be regarded as the charac- 

 teristic fisheries of the country. Stow-net fishing is, 



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