SHETLAND, HEBRIDERNE OG IRLAND 



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Under flænsning. (Bukspækket Ijfnicl.) 



Resultatet av komiteens arbeide er nedlagt i «Report of the 

 Committee appointed by the Fishery Board for Scotland to enquire 

 into the Scottish Whaling industry», Edinburgh 1920. 



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«Co7iclusions.» 



«The Committee accordingly find: 



1. That the herring fishery on the west, north, and north- 

 east coasts of Shetland was formerly a prosperious industry, 

 but has of recent years diminished and finally disappeared. 



2. That numerious and costly curing stations existed at 

 Balta Sound, Hillswick, Ronasvoe, Scalloway, and elsewhere which 

 have now for the most part been utterly abandoned, and whose 

 abandonment has been attended vv^ith great financial loss. 



3. That the decline of the fishing in question was coincident 

 with the development of the whaling industry in Shetland and 

 began soon after its introduction into the islands. 



