ON SCOTTISH MARINE FISHERIES. a71 
was due to the trawlers) was 54,700 cwts. = £75,989; a decrease 
of over 4000 cwts. and £4200 as compared with 1906. On the 
other hand, Lemon-dabs did not vary much in quantity from 
the preceding year’s figures, yet £3000 more was obtained. 
-Turbot, again, showed increases of 755 cwts. and £2773. 
The total amount of all fishes landed was the highest on 
record, being 9,078,059 cwts. of the value of £3,169,737. The 
Board truly says that this result shows a new record in the 
fishing industry in Scotland. It exceeds by 1,484,690 cwts. and 
£192,144 the highest figures hitherto attained. Yet the average 
price was lower by 10d. per cwt. than in 1906. This favourable 
condition was largely due to the fact that the catch of Herrings 
exceeded all former returns, though at one time the Herring was 
supposed to be a vanishing fish. The Herrings landed amounted 
to 6,881,117 cwts., and the value to £1,834,940. Yet there were 
189 fewer vessels than in 1906, though there was an increase in 
tonnage to the extent of 2304 and of £680,968 in gross value ; 
32,228 men and boys, or 872 more than in 1906, manned the 
vessels. The greater number of vessels, 89 per cent., were 
sailing-boats, 8 per cent. were steam-driven vessels employed in 
Herring, drift, and long line-fishing, and 348, or 3 per cent., 
were trawlers. i 
In 1908 the liners captured 670,946 cwts. of round fishes, 
140,984 cwts. more than in 1907, but as the value was lowered 
by 2s. per ewt. the total over last year was only £1457. Much 
of the improvement in the catch of the liners was due to steam- 
liners, yet in regard to Cod and Ling the sailing-vessels were 
pre-eminent. It is interesting that, taking the statistics of the 
Kast Coast for twenty years,* the average catch of Ling for the 
first ten years, 1889-1898, was 46,129 cwts., whilst for the 
last ten years, 1899-1908, the average was 105,648 cwts., or 
more than double. Of Torsk, a fish also taken largely by liners, 
the respective averages were 1981 cwts. and 7540 cwts., a still 
more noteworthy increase. 
The trawlers caught 1,910,088 cwts. of round fishes, the 
highest on record, the same position being held by the value, 
viz. £756,569, though the average per cwt. (8s.) was the lowest 
* 27th Ann. Rep. S. F. B., Part III., “Review of Statistics,” by Dr. 
Fulton, p. 129. 
