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rally carried on so far from the land as on the east 

 coast, and shelter is more easily obtained in case of 

 necessity. 



The usual plan of giving a bounty to the herring 

 fishermen, and enfra2:ino; to take their fish at a fixed 

 price per cran, is adopted by the curers at Stornoway 

 as elsewhere. 



The following is a return^ for the six years ending 

 1872 of the quantities of fish of all kinds variously 

 cured on shore in the Fishery Board districts of Storno- 

 way, Loch Broom, Loch Carron and Skye, and Fort 

 William : — 



It will be observed that the fluctuations are consider- 

 able; in the herring fishery they are partly due to 

 weather, but a great deal depends on the number of 

 strange boats which may be attracted or not to the 

 western waters. In 1872 there was a decrease of up- 

 wards of 200 boats from the number of the previous 

 year, and the weather generally was very unsettled. 

 With regard to the white fish, a varying quantity was 

 cured wet, as is the usual practice at Buckie and other 

 places on the east coast ; shore-cured fish being for the 

 most part prepared at the northern islands and the Outer 

 Hebrides. 



^ Taken from the Annual Eeports of the Scotch Board of Fisheries, Ap- 

 pendix No. 2, Herring Fishery, and Appendix No. 2, Cod and Ling Fishery. 



