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Fishery Board for Scotland. 



TABLE IV. 

 Average Catch of Certain Fish in Cwts. per Voyage, 1905-13, 

 Northern Grounds. 



Here we recognise striking differences and even contrasts in 

 regard to the progressive changes in the average catch of the different 

 fishes, and it is especially remarkable that these differences are, for 

 the most part, common to the three important regions illustrated in onr 

 Tables. Both on the Northern and Western gTounds the average 

 catch of cod has materially increased, while on the East Coast grounds, 

 though it has fluctuated, it has not in the end perceptibly diminished. 

 Large lemons have kept, on the whole, steady, though of late a tendency 



