No, II. — continued. 



of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



25 



Methods 

 of Fishing 

 Pursued. 



Position of 

 Principal 

 Fishing 

 Grounds. 



Quantity and 

 Value of 



Fish Landed 

 (excluding 

 Shell Fish) 



Value 



of 

 Shell 

 Fish 

 Taken. 



Principal 

 Kinds of Fisli 

 Landed. 



No. of Curing Stations. 



General Remarks. 







Cwts. 



£ 



£ 









Crab creels. 



Nets, lines, 



and creels. 



Lines and 

 creels. 



Drift nets, 

 lines, and 

 dredges. 



Lines. 



1 to 10 miles 

 offshore. 



Firth of Forth 

 and off May 

 Island. 



1 to 5 miles 

 off. 



Foreshores. 



r Trawling >, 

 princi- 

 pally, 10 

 to 150 

 miles off 

 May 

 Island, 

 also off I 

 ' the Ork- C 

 neysand 

 Shet- 

 lands. 

 Nets and 

 lines in 

 Firth of 

 V Forth. J 

 U pper reaches 

 of Firth of 

 Forth. 



Foreshores. 



460 

 7,144 



526 

 12,856 



130 



48 

 2,566 

 245 

 8,125 



77 



974 

 1,318 



311 

 1,756 



16 





1 



Crab fishing is the principal industry. Catch 



below average. 

 The herring fishing shows an improvement, 



but the crab fishing fell off. 

 Very little change. 



These villages have a very industrious 

 population of fishermen, who follow the 

 herring fishings at the principal Scottish 

 and English centres with nmch success. 

 The home fishings, which are not of much 

 importance comparatively, gave this year 

 an increase in clams. 



Fishings unimportant. 



Lines and 

 nets. 



Mussel 

 dredges. 



Trawl, drift, 

 seine, and 

 other nets, 

 also lines. 



Otter 

 trawls. 



Bag- nets. 



Lines. 

 Gathering 

 shell-fish. 

 Nets. 



Lines and 

 nets. 



2,151 



15,080 

 328,049 



1,635 



998 

 1,635 

 270 



372 

 323 



1,405 

 1,313 

 871 



1,154 



7,390 

 170,731 



522 



911 

 467 

 126 



111 

 184 



719 



503 

 500 



2 



212 

 221 



170 



* 37 



7 



2 

 25 



• 



• 



4 

 1 



The fishermen are industrious, and derive 

 their principal income from the herring 

 fishing, which they prosecute at the 

 Scottish and English centres. The home 

 fishing is not very productive. 



Small quantities of mussels and clams are 

 landed here as a convenient place for 

 distribution. 



There was a general decrease in the landings. 

 Herrings did not appear in the Firth of 

 Forth in the autumn as usual, and sprats, 

 which were a very profitable catch in the 

 autumn of 1909, were almost entirely 

 absent in 1910, much to the fishermen's 

 loss. 



At Gran ton about 80 trawl vessels land their 

 catches, about two-thirds of which are 

 carted to and sold at Newhaven, the 

 remainder being usually railed direct to 

 Glasgow. The trawling industry was 

 generally successful ; the aggregate catch 

 and value were the largest on record, ex- 

 ceeding the preceding year's returns by 

 48,668 cwts. and £20,547". 

 ^ Bag-net fishing is almost the only method 

 carried on at these villages, and fish 



y herrings, and codlings. The autumn fish- 

 1 was very poor this year, but the year's 

 1 gross earnings from one source or another 

 ) were about as good as the average. 

 Fisheries unimportant. 



>) M 

 » >l 



l> II 

 II 11 







375,218 



194,379 



0,UDi 





6 





Nets and 



lines. 

 Lines and 



creels. 

 Nets and 



lines. 



Firth of Forth 



3,901 

 85 

 3,989 



2,138 

 67 

 1,926 



87 

 11 

 9 



1 



Herrings and 



haddocks. 

 Codlings and 



plaice. 



Haddocks, cod- 

 lings, and 

 herrings. 



1 



Increase in catch and value. Small-line fish- 

 ing showed a decided improvement. 



Falling-off in catch. Fishing not regularly 

 prosecuted. 



Increase in quantity and value of fish landed, 

 chiefly referable to haddocks. 



