CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Introductory. 



General Review of the Resources of the Sea and the Influence of Man 

 thereon 



CHAPTER II. 



Renaarks on the Scientific Report to the Royal Commission on Trawling 



(1884) 27 



a. Effects of Trawling on the Invertebrate Fauna ... 36 

 h. Effects of the hooks of the Liners on the same grounds . 46 

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

 fishes, and on very young fishes on the bottom ... 50 

 The Recommendations of the Royal Commission on Trawling (1883 — 85), 

 and the methods adopted by the Fishery Board for Scotland in 



carrying them out 54 



Closure of Areas 54 



Changes in the Trawling-vessels and their Apparatus .... 59 



Changes in the Line-boats and their Apparatus 72 



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



Fishing Grounds and the Fishes 74 



CHAPTER III. 



Investigations in St Andrews Bay, 1886 — 1896 (p. 103). 



CHAPTER lY. 



Investigations in Frith of Forth, 1886—1896 (p. 133). 



CHAPTER y. 



Investigations in Moray Frith, 1887 — 1897 (p. 185). 



