Pak ZOOLOGTST 
No. 856.—October 15th. 1912. 
ON SCOTTISH MARINE FISHERIES, 1898-1912. 
By Prof. McIntosu, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Gatty Marine 
Laboratory, St. Andrews.* 
WueEn the British Association last met in Dundee (1867) the 
scientific study of the marine fisheries was in abeyance, though 
considerable attention had been devoted to the life-history of the 
Salmon. It was sixteen or seventeen years later before a com- 
mencement was made with this important subject under the 
auspices of Lord Dalhousie, the Chairman of the Royal Com- 
mission on Trawling and the Fisheries. This Commission was 
appointed in response to urgent appeals in regard to the sup- 
posed decadence of the sea-fisheries in general. The subject has 
already been dealt with in its earlier aspects in a communication 
to the Edinburgh Meeting of the British Association in 1892,+ in 
the ‘Resources of the Sea” in 1898, and in 1903 (a second 
decade) after the international scheme of work had been out- 
lined.t Two lectures were also given at the Royal Institution 
in May, 1907.§ The object of the present communication is to 
carry the subject up to date, and to consider what conclusions 
may safely be drawn from a review of the whole question. 
In the ‘“‘ Resources of the Sea” an abstract of the yearly 
* Abstract communicated to the meeting of the British Association in 
Dundee, Sept. 5th, 1912. 
+ ‘A Brief Sketch of the Scottish Fisheries, chiefly in their Scientific 
‘Aspects, during the Past Decade, 1882-1892.’ 
{ ‘A Second Decade in the Scotch Sea Fisheries, Dundee, 1903.’ 
§ ‘Zoologist,’ July, 1907. 
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