of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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From Appendix E, No. I I., it will also be seen that o4,401 barrels 

 of lightly sprinkled or iced herrings were exported to Europe. 



II. Cod, LiNtr, &c. 



The interesting feature of the returns of cured cod, ling, and other 

 white fish is the increase in the quantity so treated, and the decline 

 in the quantity exported, which would appear to indicate that the 

 demand for such fish in this country is greatly on the increase. 



The total quantity of dried fish exported (chiefly to Spanish and 

 American markets, via London and Liverpool, and to the Continent 

 via Hamburg) was 104,058 cwts., a decline of 21,279 cwts. from the 

 1909 return. 



There was a good demand at the following rates, viz. : — Cod, £19 to 

 £23 a ton ; ling, £23 to £26 a ton ; saithe, £16 to £19 a ton ; haddocks, 

 £17 to £19 a ton. 



Five Faroese smacks landed cargoes of wet-cured fish, and three 

 steamer cargoes of dried fish were imported from Iceland, which sold 

 at from £12 to £14 10s. per ton, according to quality. About 4000 

 barrels of cured fish-roes were exported to France to be used as bait 

 in the sardine fisheries. A remarkable feature of the sardine fishing 

 in Brittany is the enormous amount of bait which is used. 



PEESONS ENGAGED IN THE SCOTTISH SEA FISHEEIES 

 AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES. 



From Appendix F, No. I., it will be seen that there has been a 

 further, but comparatively slight, decrease in the total number of 

 persons engaged in connection with the Scottish fisheries, the figures 

 being 90,813 for the year under review, as compared with 92,060 in 

 1909 and 92,837 in 1908. 



The decline of 1247 thus shown for 1910 is accounted for almost 

 wholly by a reduction of 1164 in the number of British persons 

 employed on board vessels engaged in the carrying trade or in curing 

 fish at sea. Although there is an increase of 608 in the number of 

 foreigners similarly employed, it has to be kept in view that in the 

 previous year there had been a decrease of 1180 under this head, and, 

 on the whole, the number of foreigners included in the total has not 

 increased in recent years. Other differences from the figures for 1909 

 are probably due to temporary fluctuations, as in the number of 

 gutters and packers, of whom 242 fewer were employed. The 1909 

 total in this class, however, had showed an excess of 480 over that of 

 1908. 



The number of fishermen varied from 39,208 in 1909 to 38,941 in 

 1910, a decrease of 267, or only '7 per cent. The number of persons 

 directly engaged in fishing ten years ago was 35,806, so that, notwith- 

 standing the tendency towards concentration in the interval, there has 

 been an increase of nearly 9 per cent, in the number of hands 

 employed. 



BOAT-BUILDING. 



From Appendix G, No. I., it appears that durmg 1910 there was a 

 slight revival in the boat- building industry, the number of vessels 



