ABERDEEN TRAWLING STATISTICS 
For THE YEAR 1912. 
InTRODUCTORY NOTE BY 
DARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON. 
THERE are here presented, for the year 1912, the detailed returns of 
the Aberdeen trawling fleet, such as have hitherto been published, 
for the years 1902-1911, in the special Reports of the Board’s North 
Sea Investigations. These returns are of two kinds. 
In the first, and briefer, series of Tables is shown the catch of the 
entire trawling fleet, both British and foreign vessels, landing at 
Aberdeen. The British landings were 11,010 in number, the 
foreign 446, making a total of 11,456. For these voyages there 
are recorded the number of days that the vessel was absent from 
port, the gross earnings, and the quantity of fish landed of each kind 
and market class. These are further classified according to the 
place of fishing into the following regions : — 
(1) Northern grounds, including areas VI.-XVI. 
) East Coast grounds, including areas XVII., XXII., 
x XU MXVEIT, XXX: 
(3) Middle grounds, including areas XVIII.-XXI., XXIV., 
XXV., XXX. 
(4) South-eastern grounds, including areas XXVI., XXVII., 
XXXT.-XL. 
(5) Various North Sea grounds, including catches made up 
from more than one of the above regions. 
(6) Western grounds, off the north-west and west coasts of 
Scotland. 
7) Faeroe and Iceland. 
(8) Mixed grounds, to include catches made partly in the 
North Sea and partly on the western or northern fishing- 
grounds. 
(9) And lastly, the White Sea, Norwegian Coast (north of 62° 
N.), and other distant fishing-grounds. 
Our first series of Tables, then, show (p. 26) for these larger 
areas :— 
1. The total number of voyages during the year, the total 
catch of each kind and class of fish, and the gross earnings 
of the entire Aberdeen trawling fleet. : 
2. The average catch and average earnings per voyage. 
3. The average catch and earnings per day’s absence from port. 
4. The percentage yielded, by each of the above fishing- 
grounds, of the entire catch, and of each class of fish. 
500—Wt. 2166/75—5/1914. 
