of the Fishery Board for Scotland. xlv 





Cod. 



Ling-. 



Tusk. 



Saithe. 



Haddocks. 



Mack- 

 erel. 



Year. 



Cwts. 

 Dried. 



Cwts. 

 Smoked 



cS O 



Cwts. 

 Dried. 



Cwts. 

 Smoked 



6q 



CO ^ 



t 2 



■Jl 



Cwts. 

 Dried. 



Cwts. 

 Smoked 



-2 %. 

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 o 2 



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5^ 



mS 



1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 190.5 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 



40,.'')17 

 40,813 

 36,393 

 42,046 

 48,626 

 60,693 

 65,709 

 81,967 

 60,766 



102,527 

 95,508 



100,733 



1,634 

 2,882 

 14,995 

 23,001 

 23,396 

 110,737 

 154,353 

 124,522 

 123,985 

 127,479 

 109,537 

 112,636 



7,865 

 4,744 

 4,875 

 2,821 

 1,290 

 2,147 

 1,200 

 1,741 

 1,2.56 

 1,157 

 1,920 

 1,165 



29,149 

 28,130 

 23,191 

 13,363 

 10,137 

 15,714 

 21,102 

 14,322 

 12,748 

 36,239 

 32,282 

 41,414 



4,127 

 9,350 

 5,000 

 2,000 

 15,290 

 12,500 

 10,400 

 6,700 

 3,320 

 3,990 



2,425 

 1,570 

 2,676 

 1,991 

 1,601 

 2,019 

 3,395 

 1,993 

 1,035 

 2,745 

 1,768 

 3,004 



1,378 

 525 

 1,220 

 3,990 

 3,150 

 2,870 



23,747 

 15,492 

 14,472 

 17,283 

 15,272 

 18,8.31 

 19,406 

 13.983 

 10,753 

 19,431 

 15,.387 

 19,095 



15,900 

 18,000 

 19,200 

 25,. 570 

 30,1,50 

 31,920 



283,883 

 282,161 

 322,596 

 337,677 

 381,156 

 386,604 

 340,433 

 292,. 582 

 365,797 

 384,985 

 279,054 

 240,429 



6,809 

 11,709 

 13,512 

 12,110 

 14,863 

 5,172 

 5,692 



6,549 

 626 

 216 

 107 



830 

 1,473 

 1,389 

 1,390 

 1,487 

 2,153 

 2,56« 



The value of the fish (other than herrings) which was cured is 

 estimated at £703,698, a decrease of only £392 from the return for 

 1909. The total was made up of £509,947 for smoked fish, £188,129 

 for dried, and £5622 for pickled fish. 



The grand total value of cured fish was £3,315,000, being £241,855 

 in excess of the figures for 1909, and the districts chiefly responsible 

 for this result were Aberdeen (£805,379), Shetland (£727,880), 

 Peterhead (£386,530), Fraserburgh (£322,898), Wick (£275,218), 

 Eyemouth (£252,896), and on the West Coast, Stornoway (£111,488), 

 and Barra (£90,371). 



CUEED FISH EXPOETED. 

 I. Herrings. 



Over 80 per cent, of the herrings cured gutted and packed in 

 barrels in Scotland are exported to Europe and America, principally 

 the former. Our best customers, in point of order, are the Eussians 

 and the Germans. A large proportion of the quantity consumed by 

 the former are shipped to the German Baltic ports and thence conveyed 

 by rail. Herrings form the staple food of the peasantry, who usually 

 consume them in an uncooked state with potatoes. The best qualities 

 (especially West Coast matjes) are taken in the form of hors d'muvres 

 by the wealthy classes, and they occasionally realise £5 and upwards 

 per barrel. 



In the early years of the nineteenth century the export trade was 

 confined almost wholly to the West Indian plantations and Ireland. 

 The slave-owners in the Indies found Scottish herrings to be both a 

 cheap and a wholesome food for their slaves, and large quantities were 

 purchased by them annually. The abolition of slavery, however, put 

 an end to the demand from that quarter, and the prospects for the 

 industry were of the most gloomy description, By a fortuitious 

 combination of circumstances, however, the insignificant trade with 

 European countries received a stimulus, and in 184 3 that trade, which 

 had begun in the closing year (1815) of the great European war, 

 grew perceptibly, the export to Europe then reaching for the first 

 time a total of 100,000 barrels. Its growth remained comparatively 



