of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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At some of the enquiries which were held in former years as to the 

 prosperity of the herring fishery in the Clyde and Loch Fyne, various 

 statistics were submitted on behalf of the Fishery Board showing the 

 fluctuations in the quantijiies of herrings taken over considerable periods. 

 Some of them are for different series of years than those referred to above, 

 and as they appear to have been derived from more detailed information than 

 is available in the published Annual Keports, they may be here given. In 

 the report of the Eoyal Commission on " Trawling " for herrings, pub- 

 lished in 1863, it is stated that the general annual average of herrings 

 taken in Loch Fyne for each five years from the year 1834 to 1862 was 

 as follows : — 



In a more detailed return for the year 1844 to 1862, published in the 

 same report, and also referring to herrings caught in Loch Fyne, the 

 quantity cured is distinguished from the quantity used fresh, and the 

 total for each year is given, as follows : — 



Year. 

 1844 

 1845 

 1846 

 1847 

 1848 

 1849 

 1850 

 1851 

 1852 



