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Thirty-second Annual Report 



Table slio\ving the Quantity of each kind of Demersal Fish landed in 

 Scotland in 1913, and the Fishing Area from which taken. 



Kind of Fish. 



h Sea. 



1"^ o 



^ 1=1 s 



stem 

 unds. 



ish 

 unds. 



xed 

 unds. 



:way. 



hite 

 ea. 



"i 





t, 



a> eS eS 



* 2 



2 



^ 2 



0 



^ CO 



0 



H 





o 





<^ o 



o 













Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cod and Codling 



604,832 



488,366 



106,324 



136 



23,306 



2,028 



8,457 



1,233,449 



Ling . 



109,333 



10,208 



87,177 



3,510 



5,985 



189 



2 



216,404 



Tusk . 



6,364 



2,223 



8,294 



97 



386 



1 





17,365 



Saithe . 



251,358 



99,101 



51,848 





6,909 



1,764 



"5 



410,985 



Hake 



15,116 



17 



2,833 



'34 



909 





5 



18,914 



Haddocks 



542,443 



101,393 



57,257 



1 



12,733 



1,770 



14,507 



730,104 



Whitings 



^j.o,j.oy 



2,038 



o,±yo 







JLaO 





223,745 



Turbot . 



3,475 



2 



269 



"2 



42 



1 





3,791 



Halibut . 



Xo,OUU 



8,989 





1 QQQ 







Oi 



48,945 



Brill 



144 





52 





12 







208 



Lemon Soles . 



31,053 



4,084 



900 





656 



"3 





36,696 



Plaice . 



33,694 



2,393 



8,490 





968 



22 



593 



46 160 



Dabs 



9,595 



'l30 



137 





45 







9*907 



Whitches 



27,811 



1,731 



440 





274 



"ii 



"2 



30,269 



Megrims 



16,939 



502 



774 





409 



12 



35 



18,671 



Conger Eels . 



1,802 



2 



19,988 



"44 



107 







21,943 



Skate . 



80,499 



3,777 



44,101 



1,782 



5.305 



'33 



"1 



135,498 



Gurnards 



5,340 



9 



1,192 





221 







6,762 



Catfish . 



20,188 



8,372 • 



317 





639 



"5 



223 



29,744 



Monks . 



22,837 



702 



821 





473 



15 





24,848 



Squids . 



22 



6 













28 



Other Kinds . 



13,249 



8,914 



8,979 



"5 



442 



'29 



203 



31,821 



Grand Totals . 



2,027,763 



742,959 



423,623 



7,610 



64,099 



6,119 



24,084 



3,296,257 



Percentage 



61-52 



22-54 



12-85 



•23 



1-94 



•19 



•73 





It will be observed that considerably more than half of the total 

 supply is drawn from the North Sea, and that nearly the whole of the 

 remainder is taken on the Icelandic, Faroese, and western grounds. 

 The North Sea also furnishes the greatest quantity of each individual 

 species except conger eels and tusk, this preponderance being most 

 marked in haddocks, whitings, whitches, and megrims, and least so in 

 cod and ling. 



(a) ROUND FISH 



The total quantity of round fish caught in 1913 was 2,934,263 cwts., 

 valued at £1,444,299, these figures representing a decrease of 1*4 

 per cent, in quantity, but an increase of 10-7 per cent, in value, as 

 compared with the returns for 1912. The value, as did that of 1912, 

 constitutes an easy record for this class of fish. The falling off in 

 quantity was almost entirely due to line-caught fish, the quantity. so 

 taken having fallen from 680,584 cwts. to 533,221 cwts., whereas the 

 ' trawl catch advanced from 2,197,014 cwts. to 2,316,437 cwts. The 

 quantity taken by net was 84,605 cwts., as against 97,299 cwts. in the 

 preceding year. The increase in value was also wholly referable to 

 trawl fish, although, owing to the enhanced prices ruling, the decline in 

 value of line and net caught fish was not so pronounced as in quantity. 



The species which show decreases are, in order of magnitude, 

 haddocks, conger eels, cod, gurnards, hake, and catfish, while increases 

 are shown, in the same order, by saithe, whitings, ling, monks, and 

 tusk. 



Haddocks. 



The quantity of haddocks landed shows the serious falling off 

 from the preceding year's catch of 23 per cent., the figures for 1913 

 and 1912 being respectively 730,104 cwts. and 953,226 cwts., while if 



