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number of barrels cured and exported, as well 

 as those branded (under each class of brand), 

 unbranded and rejected, the places to which the 

 fish are consigned, etc. 



4. The industry at each " creek " or station — 

 boats and men, method of fishing, amount and 

 value of fish captured, etc. 



5. Other statistics, complaints, prosecutions, etc. 



It will be seen, from a perusal of Part I. of 

 the reports, that an almost exhaustive account 

 of the sea-fishing industry of Scotland is rendered 

 by the officers, and this is all the more valuable 

 since it deals with almost every aspect of the 

 fisheries, economic, commercial, and scientific, and 

 is discussed very fully in the General Statement 

 of the Board. 



A thoroughly efficient and practical scheme of 

 fisheries statistics would give all the information 

 yielded by the Scottish system, but would, in 

 addition, go much further in many respects. 

 Not enough species of fishes are distinguished 

 in either the Scottish or English system, and the 

 list would have to be extended so as to include 

 some twenty-five to thirty different species of sea- 

 fishes, about half a dozen species of molluscs, 

 and three or four species of edible Crustacea. 

 More information would have to be given as to 

 the sizes of the fishes landed : when the fishing 

 trade recognises several distinct classes of the same 

 kind of fish, according to the average size, these 



