of the Fishery Board for Scotland. xlvii 





Before 



Act 



IN 





After Act in Op 



ERA'I 



ion. 







Operation. 



















Nationality 



190 



7-8. 



1908-9. 



1909-10. 



1910-11. 



1911-12. 



1912-13. 



OF 



























Trawlers. 































t» 

 a 





CO 



m 







w 



o5 





CO 







O 



<D 





O) 



_o 





_o 





_o 





_o 





ci 



'm 



03 





ca 



% 







*cn 



cS 





*w 



ce 





'w 



cS 





H 



o 



o 





o 

 o 

 O 





o 



o 





o 

 o 



o 





o 

 o 

 O 





u 

 o 



o 



Norwegian 



16 



171 



13 



112 



7 



103 



8 



141 



7 



84 



6 



112 



Swedish 



1 



3 







1 



1 



1 



8 



8 



28 



2 



7 



Danish .... 



8 



25 



16 



99 



9 



60 



1 



10 



2 



14 



4 



47 



Total Scandinavian 



CI K 



25 



199 



29 



211 



17 



164 



10 



159 



17 



126 



12 



166 



German . 



1 



A 



1 



1 



5 



12 



16 



33 



28 



55 



15 



21 



Dutch .... 



2 



2 



6 



8 



7 



15 



11 



15 



10 



24 



13 



29 



Belgian 



8 



27 



10 



19 



9 



26 



3 



6 



5 



18 



6 



16 



Total 



11 



31 



17 



28 



21 



53 



30 



54 



43 



97 



34 



66 



Grand Total 



36 



230 



46 



239 



38 



217 



40 



213 



60 



223 



46 



232 



The Act was aimed principally at pseudo-Scandinavian trawlers 

 registered in Scandinavian countries, but, as there is good reason to 

 believe, really owned in Britain, and in this respect it will be observed 

 that it has to a certain extent effected its purpose, the average number 

 of such vessels observed at work during the four years subsequent to 

 1909, as compared with the average for the two years prior to the 

 passing of the Act, having fallen from 27 to 14, and the number of 

 occasions on which they were observed from 205 to 154. Unfortunately, 

 however, the benefit which might thus have accrued has been largely 

 neutralised by the increasing extent to which trawlers of other nation- 

 alities have resorted to the Firth, a similar comparison showing that 

 in their case the number of individual vessels has increased from 14 to 

 32, and the number of occasions on which they were observed at work 

 from 29 to 67. 



If, however, the amount of actual trawling has been only slightly 

 lessened, the redistribution of nationalities which has been effected 

 has probably been of real benefit, inasmuch as the Scandinasrian vessels 

 work all the year round, whereas the German, Dutch, and Belgian 

 trawlers largely confine their operations to the limited period in the 

 spring during which the cod shoals are present. The cod is a fish upon 

 whose numbers trawling operations appear to make little or no im- 

 pression, while the diminished intensity of operations throughout the 

 remainder of the year cannot be otherwise than beneficial. 



The Firth of Clyde is the only other prohibited area in Scottish 

 waters which has been frequented by foreign trawlers, and trawling 

 there practically ceased with the passing of the Act. 



Fish landed in the United Kingdom in contravention of the Act are 

 liable to confiscation by the Customs authorities, but only four such 

 cases have come under the notice of the Board. 



