20 IMPROVED FISHERY HARBOUR ACCOMMODATION 



PORT SCULLAMIE. 



Here, Mr. Young tells us, a fishing boat harbour has proved 

 a failure, and recommends the removal of the materials 

 to a more promising site between Tongue House and Scul- 

 lamie, where a natural reef of rocks affords great facilities 

 for the construction of a safe fishing-boat harbour for a 

 moderate number of boats. A smaller reef a short distance 

 from it, a sandy bay between the two ; a small breakwater 

 and two short piers, he considers sufficient. Mr. Young also 

 draws attention to Tolmine, on the opposite side of the 

 Kyle of Tongue, where by joining a small island with the 

 mainland, with a pier of 100 yards length, a safe harbour 

 might be made for fishing boats. 



Mr. Young draws the following conclusions from the 

 various evidence brought forward in his essay, which 

 may be read at length in ' Fish and Fisheries ' (Wm. Black- 

 wood & Sons, Edinburgh). 



ist. That the harbour accommodation on the east coast of 

 Scotland is inadequate to the increased and increasing size 

 of the boats and the expansion of the fishing industry. 



2nd. That, taking the various localities near the in- 

 exhaustible fish supply of the North Sea, that locality 

 which provides the best harbour will be almost certain to 

 have the best fishing. 



3rd. That in the great fishing centres, such as Aberdeen, 

 Fraserburgh, and Peterhead, there is no great difficulty in 

 raising money for harbour improvements on the security 

 of the harbour dues ; and that the real practical difficulty 

 meets us when we come to think how to raise money for 

 harbour improvement in the case of smaller places near 

 good fishing grounds, such as Eyemouth, Banff, Cullen, 

 Lybster, Helmsdale, &c. 



