CHAPTER II. 



Eemarks on the Scientific Keport to the Eoyal Commission on Trawling 

 (1884) :— 



(a) Effect of Trawling on the Invertebrate Fauna of the Sea-bottom 



(forming Fish-food) and Collateral Kelations with Pelagic Life. 

 (6) Effects of the Hooks of the Liners on the same Ground, 

 (c) Effects of the Trawl on the Eggs of Fishes, on certain Ground- 

 Fishes, and Very Young Fishes on the Bottom. 

 The Eecommendations of the Eoyal Commission on Trawling (1883-85), 

 and the method adopted by the Fishery Board for Scotland in carrying them out. 

 Closure of Areas. 



Changes in the Trawling-vessels and their Apparatus. 

 Changes in the Line-boats and their Apparatus. 



The present state of the Line- and the Trawl-Fisheries in relation to the 

 Fishing grounds and the Fishes. 



Remarks on the Author's Trawling Report of 1884. 



I. General Remarks. 



Fully fifteen years having elapsed since the Report on 

 Trawling on the eastern shores was presented to the Trawling 

 Commission (composed of the late Earl of Dalhousie, chairman ; 

 Right Hon. Edward Marjoribanks, M.P., now Lord Tweedmouth; 

 Prof Huxley ^ Mr W. S. Caine, M.P. ; and Mr, now Sir T. F. 

 Brady), it appears to be desirable to review the statements 

 contained therein in the light of the information which the 

 impetus given by the Commission has produced. Moreover, 



^ It has been alleged that Prof. Huxley's health prevented him from 

 sharing in the responsibility for the conclusions and recommendations of the 

 Report of the Commission. Cunningham, Marketable Fishes, p. 15. He 

 at least read the scientific Report and expressed his approval of it. 



