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markedly increased, and their local catch has thus helped to com- 

 pensate the country at large for the restricted operations of the larger 

 markets, and for the diminished produce of the deep-sea trawlers. 



We see, accordingly, from Table H, that whereas Aberdeen 

 furnished in 1913 73 per cent, of all the fish landed in Scotland 

 (herring and other net-caught fish excluded), and while this propor- 

 tion remained almost unchanged in 1914, it had fallen to 59 per cent. 

 in 1915, and to 53 per cent, in 1916. 



But while this diminution is well marked in, and depends upon, 

 the catch of a considerable number of fishes, including (for instance) 

 cod, haddock, and plaice, it does not appear at all in the case of 

 others, such as turbot, halibut, tusk, and lemon sole : for the simple 

 reason that these latter are caught wholly or well-nigh wholly by trawl, 

 and are not taken under any circumstances by the small or inshore 

 fishermen. 



As a natural supplement, then, to this last Table, we show (as in 

 former years) a Table (I) comparing, for all Scotland, the catch of 

 trawled fish with the total supply of all kinds landed whether by 

 trawl or line, but excluding the catch by nets ; that is to say, we 

 are dealing only with what are often called, nowadays, the " demersal 

 fishes." 



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