of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 





Before 



Act 



IN 







After Act in Operation. 









Operation. 

























1907-8. 



1908-9. 



1909-10. 



1910-11. 



1911-12. 



1912-13. 



1913-14. 



OF 































t? A WT T IT t? G 

 X Jtt A \V Jjli* JVO. 





CO 









CO 





CO 



CO 



CO 

 f3 



w 



CO 

 fg 



CO 



CO 







_o 









_C 





_o 









o 



s 



_o 















"co 





' m 









% 





' V) 



cS 











o 





c3 



o 





cS 



cS 





ri 







o 







o 



o 





o 

 O 





o 



o 





o 





o 



o 





o 









16 



171 



13 



112 



7 



103 



8 



141 



7 



84 



6 



112 



6 



87 



Swedish 



1 



3 







1 



1 



1 



8 



8 



28 



2 



7 







J-^dliibll » • • • 



8 



25 



16 



99 



9 



60 



1 



10 



2 



14 



4 



47 



5 



44 





25 



199 



29 



211 



17 



164 



10 



159 



17 



126 



12 



166 



11 



131 



VTci lilclXX • • > 



1 



2 



1 



1 



5 



12 



16 



33 



28 



55 



15 



21 



15 



27 



Dutch .... 



2 



2 



6 



8 



7 



15 



11 



15 



10 



24 



13 



29 



21 



58 



Belgian 



8 



27 



10 



19 



9 



26 



3 



6 



5 



18 



6 



16 



15 



58 



Total 



11 



31 



17 



28 



21 



53 



30 



54 



43 



97 



34 



66 



51 



143 



Grand Total 



36 



230 



46 



239 



38 



217 



40 



213 



60 



223 



46 



232 



62 



274 



The Act was aimed principally at the pseudo-Scandinavian trawlers, 

 registered in Scandinavian countries, but, as there is good reason to 

 believe, really owned in Britain. It will be observed that the number 

 of trawlers working, which had fallen from 60 in 1911-12 to 46 in 

 1912-13, had again risen to 62, while the number of occasions on which 

 the trawlers were observed — 274 — was the largest since the passing of 

 the Act, notwithstanding the fact that soon after the outbreak of war 

 foreign trawlers were wholly prohibited from working in the Moray 

 Firth. The increase is entirely due to the much greater number of 

 Dutch and Belgian trawlers engaged. 



The Firth of Clyde is the only other prohibited area in Scottish 

 waters which has been frequented by foreign trawlers, and trawling 

 there practically ceased with the passing of the Act. 



Fish landed in the United Kingdom in contravention of the Act are 

 liable to confiscation by the Customs authorities, but only four such 

 cases have come under the notice of the Board. 



ENQUIRIES INTO COMPLAINTS OF DAMAGE TO BOATS 



OR GEAR. 



In Appendix K, No. 1 (p. 157) will be found particulars of com- 

 plaints by fishermen of damage to their boats or gear by other fishing 

 vessels, made to and investigated by the Board's officers. The total 

 number of such complaints was 36, representing a decrease of 21 when 

 compared with the previous year's figures. This considerable decrease 

 was to some extent attributable to the reduction of fishing, which 

 was necessarily caused by the restrictions imposed by the Admiralty, 



