XX vi 



Thirty-second Annual Report 



drifters had practically all left the northern ports by the middle of 

 J lily ; and it was to the augmentation of its fleet by a considerable 

 number of these vessels that Peterhead's pre-eminence on the East 

 Coast was due. As a matter of fact, as August advanced the fishing 

 rapidly improved in northern waters, but although a few Scottish and 

 English drifters returned, and worked very successfully, their numbers 

 were far too few to make up the earlier shortage. 



A feature of this August fishing was the large number of heavy 

 individual catches landed, and one of 364 crans (about 64 tons) which 

 realised £826, and to which particular reference is made in the annual 

 report for Fraserburgh district (p. 200), is, both as regards quantity and 

 value, probably without parallel in the history of herring fishing. 



The value of the catch was £1,302,710, which gives an average price 

 per cwt. of lis., as compared with £1,217,521, and 8s. 6d. in 1912. On 

 the East Coast the average was 10s. lid., in Orkney and Shetland 

 lis. 9d., and on the West Coast 10s. 3d., as compared with 7s. lid., 

 9s. 5s., and 8s. lid. respectively in the preceding year. 



In the following table the quantity of herrings landed in each 

 district monthly in 1913 is shown, together with the totals for 1912. 

 This table illustrates clearly the sharply defined differences between the 

 two years. 



Return showing the Quantity of Herrings landed in each District in each Month of 



the Year 1913. 



District. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



April. 



May. 



June. 



July. 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



Total. 





Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Eyemouth . 



185 



84 



749 





6,552 



35,999 



44,097 



17,209 



9,397 









. 114.272 



Leith . . 



7,772 



2,205 



499 



"31 



212 



38 



151 



186 



155 



*i26 



"il7 



1,034 



12;.526 



Anstruther . 



3,589 



16,783 



10,871 



420 



7 



5,753 



13,666 



6,009 



1,320 





7 



63 



58,488 



Montrose . 



1 





10 



66 



70 



1,640 



6,673 



4,377 











■'12,837 



Stonehaven . 









7 



182 



637 



371 



133 











1,330 



Aberdeen 



"34 



'583 



'376 



341 



2,902 



51,545 



106,400 



96,593 



6,979 



3', 060 



'230 



"i24 



269.167 



Peterhead 





1,155 



1,428 





37,807 



209,731 



262,279 



245,213 











774,892 



Fraserburgh 



'367 





186 





24,906 



154,564 



178,913 



271,999 



19^498 









650,433 



Banfl . . 



11 



' '77 



217 





2,290 



5,558 



4,1.32 



6,815 



1,158 









20,258 



Buckie 



767 



106 



236 





574 



5,894 



5,628 



6,097 



1,478 









20,780 



Findhorn 



758 



7 



105 





210 



3,002 



1,732 



3,468 



1,253 



'934 



"715 



"91 



12,275 



Cromarty 















30 







129 



35 





194 



Helmsdale . 













"175 



28 



91 



7 









301 



Lybster . 













333 



626 



927 



85 









1,971 



Wick . 



29,157 



13,715 



4,085 



4 



11,461 



63,978 



110,006 



179,999 



14,742 



'ii2 



5 



' '34 



427,298 



Orkney . 



431 









8,372 



75,943 



116,784 



111,247 



5,617 









318,394 



Shetland 



11 



16,897 



7'. 4.30 



2,464 



221,434 



290,001 



43,867 



89,721 



37,243 



'231 







709,299 



Stornoway . 



138,123 



171,116 



57,285 



141 



27,422 



29,251 



31,719 



15,170 



11,909 



7,067 



13,646 



21,401 



524,2.50 



Barra . 



812 



2,989 



1,017 



959 



32,232 



55,363 



19,439 



4,683 



428 



91 



784 



560 



119,357 



Loch Broom 



717 



1,009 







38 



222 



583 



1,264 



6,981 



3,810 





2,065 



16,689 



Loch Carron 





























andSkye . 



10,814 



2,394 



224 





144 



2,637 



5,531 



2,728 



5,158 



680 



4,495 



5,302 



40,107 



Fort- William 



39,502 



25,741 



4,486 



52 



15,763 



10,664 



3,417 



5',070 



2,888 



1,240 



3,906 



7,078 



119,807 



Campbeltown 



1,648 



3,815 



7,771 



17,735 



8,967 



8,992 



8,376 



14.898 



30,368 



14,971 



4,350 



1,987 



123,878 



Inveraray 









91 



266 



763 



3,458 



4,172 



1,267 



112 



490 



77 



10,696 



llothesay 



"397 



'282 



'758 



374 



91 



3,053 



3,318 



2,303 



1,083 



214 



70 



196 



12,139 



Greenock 



343 



35 



560 



1,547 



224 



375 



143 



599 



11,721 



7,157 



557 



1,170 



24,431 



Ballantrae . 



2,932 



30,452 



88 



304 



726 



1,970 



955 



2,327 



1,963 



195 



245 



11,095 



53,252 



Totals 1913 



238,371 



289,445 



98,381 



24,536 



402,852 



1,018,081 



972,322 



1,093, 2yb 



189,977 



40,129 



29,652 



52,277 



4,449,321 



TOTALS 1912 



65,576 



109,814 



71,923 



11,062 



671,341 



1,421,143 



1,682,495 



881,548 



114,506 



58,358 



27,960 



85,520 



5,201,246 



(b) SPRATS, SPARLINGS, AND MACKEREL. 



Although the catch shows a slight improvement upon last year's 

 figures, the sprat fishing can again only be described as a failure, the 



