of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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drifters, for example, was £1434, and one of those seven grossed 

 £2700. 



V. Trawl Vessels. 



The returns for 1914 show that the number of steam trawlers 

 registered in Scotland at the end of the year was 313, an increase of 

 15 as compared with 1913. Trawlers registered in other parts of the 

 United Kingdom but working regularly from Scottish ports were 3 

 fewer than in 1913 — -19 as compared with 22. 



The Aberdeen register records the major portion of the increase, 

 but a number of vessels on that register are now owned at Leith and 

 Grant on, and work from the Firth of Forth. The trawlers returned 

 under Greenock district work, as a rule, from East Coast ports. 



The increase in tonnage recorded is greater, relatively, than 

 the increase in the number of vessels, and, as in the case of the 

 steam drifters, this is mainly due to re-measurement of the older 

 vessels. 



The district of Ballantrae, to which the only Scottish sailing 

 trawlers belong, is now also represented in the steam trawler return. 

 A second-hand vessel was purchased by an Ayr owner, and registered 

 at that port, from which it worked for some months, but unfortunately 

 only with moderate success. 



The number of German trawlers working from Aberdeen increased 

 from 30 in 1913 to 32 in the year under review, but their operations 

 ceased on the outbreak of war. 



VI. Motor Boats. 



The returns regarding motor fishing boats again show a substantial 

 increase in the number on the registers, the total being 694, as compared 

 with 523 in 1913, an increase of 171. 



This increase is the greatest which has yet been recorded in any 

 one year, as will be seen from the following statement showing the 

 numbers of the motor fleet since 1901, when the first motor boat to 

 take part in the Scottish fisheries appeared, viz. :— 





First Class. 



Second Class. Third Class. 





Increase 



Year. 



Over 45 



30 to 45 



18 to 30 



Under 18 



Total. 



in each 





feet keel. 



feet keel. 



feet keel. 



feet keel. 





year. 



1901 



1 









1 



1 



1902 



2 









2 



1 



1903 



3 









3 



1 



1904 



3 









3 





1905 



4 









4 



i 



1906 



5 







* 



5 



1 



1907 



6 





*i 





7 



2 



1908 



10 



*i 



7 





18 



11 



1909 



35 



3 



30 



'7 



75 



57 



1910 



56 



1 



90 



9 



156 



81 



1911 



75 



4 



144 



10 



233 



77 



1912 



81 



15 



244 



16 



356 



123 



1913 



102 



80 



313 



28 



523 



167 



1914 



152 



113 



397 



32 



694 



171 



