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an increased price on the former year, viz. 29s. 4d., instead of 
25s. 1ld. per cwt.; 145,937 cwts. of flat fishes = £215,297 
were landed by trawlers, an increase of 1001 cwts. and £7864 
on 1909. 
Taking both liners and trawlers together, it was found that 
Plaice showed a decline of 7682 cwts. and £26438, the Board 
supposing that Plaice were becoming scarcer on the regular 
trawling-grounds. Halibut fishing, on the other hand, was 
highly successful, for an increase of £12,368 occurred over that 
of the previous year. Lemon-dabs, a fish long held up by the 
advocates of the impoverishment of the sea, showed an increase 
of 3101 cwts. and £5766 on 1909. Turbot had a weight of 
4987 cwts., and a value of £17,681, a diminution of 1359 ewts. 
and £3059 on the previous year. 
The total quantity of all kinds of fishes (exclusive of shell- 
fishes) brought to shore in 1910 amounted to 8,709,655 ewts. = 
£3,100,387, an increase on the previous year of 1,286,470 cwts. 
and £211,280, the second highest result on record. Of this, 
5,741,057 cwts. was attributable to Herrings, and the value of 
these was £1,609,048. 
The total number of fishing-vessels was 9724, of which the 
liners and net-fishermen had 346 steam, 3568 sail and motor 
boats, and the trawlers 320 vessels; 38,941 fishermen manned 
the vessels, a considerable increase over the previous year. 
The round fishes captured by the liners in 1911 weighed 
755,122 cwts. = £285,087, an increase of 43,023 ecwts. and of 
£12,928. This increase is in consonance with the record catch 
of the year. The liners captured 694,017 cwts. and the nets 
61,105 cwts., the latter amount being no less than 47,798 ewts. 
below that of the previous year. The decrease is stated to be 
due to the failure of the spring Cod-fishing in the Moray Firth, 
but in other places it may also be caused by the lack of energy 
or the prevalence of bad weather. Dense shoals of young green 
Cod were again captured in Orkney. Torsk and Conger showed 
an increase. : 
Trawlers captured 1,938,274 cwts. of round fishes = £819,731, 
an increase in weight of 40,260 cwts., but a reduction in value 
of £55,747—a circumstance due to the large number of small 
Haddocks at Aberdeen, which, unfit for the market, were sold to 
