TWENTY-SEVEiNTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 

 LORD PENTLAND, 



His Majesty's Secretary fm' Scotland. 



Office of The Fishery Board 

 FOR Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, lih Ajjril, 1910. 

 Your Lokdship, 



In continuation of our Twenty-seventh Annual Report 

 we have the honour to submit — 



PART III.— SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS. 



GENERAL STATEMENT. 



This part of the Twenty-seventh Annual Report deals with the 

 scientific investigations which have been conducted by the Board in 

 1908 in connection with the sea fisheries of Scotland, so far as 

 they have been completed, by means of the Parliamentary Vote 

 granted for the purpose. 



The scientific work has, as usual, been carried out under the 

 supervision of Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton, the Scientific Superintendent 

 under the Board, the researches having been undertaken chiefly 

 at the Board's Marine Laboratory, Bay of Nigg, Aberdeen, and 

 partly in the Clyde, in connection more particularl}^ with the herring 

 fishery there. The hatchery for sea fishes is also situated at the 

 Bay of Nigg, Aberdeen, and a statement of the work done at it dur- 

 ing the year will be found below. 



As was explained in previous Reports, the investigations into the 

 condition of the fishing-grounds in the Moray Firth and Aberdeen 

 Bay, which were conducted for a number of years by means of com- 

 mercial steam trawlers engaged for the purpose, have not been con- 

 tinued, for reasons formerly stated ; but the statistics of the catches 

 of line fishermen within the Moray Firth are. regularly collected, and 

 a report dealing with them and with the investigations in '.he Firth 

 generally is in course of preparation. 



