Fishery Board for Scotland. Ixxv 



I. The bye-law, dated 1st February 1886, and confirmed by the 

 Secretary for Scotland 5th April 1886, is hereby revoked. 

 II. This bye-law shall extend and apply to — (1) The Firth of Forth 

 inside or to the west of a straight line drawn from Tantallon Castle 

 on the south shore of the Firth to the lighthouse on the Isle of 

 May, and thence to Fifeness; (2) That part of the coast including 

 St Andrews Bay and the Firth of Tay which lies inside or to the 

 west of a straight line drawn from Fifeness to the Fairway Buoy 

 at the mouth of the Tay, and thence at a distance of three miles 

 along the coast to a point three miles due east (magnetic) from 

 Red Head, in Forfarshire. 



III. Within the foresaid limits, no person, unless in the service of the 



Fishery Board for Scotland, shall at any time, from the date when 

 this bye-law comes into force, use any beam trawl for taking fish ; 

 and the master or the person actually in command of any vessel 

 acting in contravention of this bye-law shall, on conviction, be 

 liable to a fine not exceeding .£100 ; and failing immediate pay- 

 ment of the fine, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding sixty 

 days, without prejudice to diligence by poinding or imprisonment, 

 if no imprisonment has followed on the conviction — all in terms 

 of the said Act. 



IV. This bye-law shall come into force on Monday the 4th of July 



next. 



The work on the East Coast has been under the general super- The work on 

 intendence of Mr Duncan Matthews, assisted by Mr Calderwood; *ye^ a Q**5» 

 while the West Coast work was under the general superintendence 

 of Mr Brook, assisted by Mr Scott, and for a time by Mr J. C. 

 Lamont. Mr Matthews' time has been largely devoted to tabu- 

 lating the statistics collected in connection with the trawling ex- 

 periments, but in addition he has found time for several important 

 investigations. Mr Calderwood acted as naturalist on board the 

 'Garland,' and devoted the time not occupied with trawling opera- 

 tions to studying the fauna of the various fishing grounds under 

 observation. Mr Brook has devoted his time chiefly to studying 

 the migration of Loch Fyne herring, collecting the Crustacea and 

 other minute forms which serve as food for the edible fishes, and 

 continuing his investigation as to the development and life- 

 history of the herring. 



As in former years, the progress of the West Coast work was 

 greatly interfered with, and at last quite arrested, for want of a 

 suitable steam tender — the small sailing cutter ' Daisy,' tender to 

 H.M.S. ' Jackal/ being quite incapable of rendering any assistance 

 in carrying on the scientific work, more especially in assisting in 

 making out the migration of the herring. 



The Board's marine station at St Andrews has again beeD under The work at 

 the direction of Professor M'Intosh, whose Eeport shows that im- laboratory* 

 portant work on the life-histories and development of the food 

 fishes has been done at this station by him and Mr E. E. Prince, 

 by Dr Schaff on the intra-ovarian eggs of food fishes, and by Mr 

 Wilson on the development of the common mussel. Some experi- 

 ments suggested by Mr Stephen Williamson, M.P., have also been 

 made on the preservation of mussels for bait. 



The memoir first mentioned, viz., that on the Development and 



