of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



25 



No. II. — continued. 



Methods 

 of Fishini; 

 pursued. 



Position of 

 Principal 

 Fistiine 

 Grounds. 



Quantity and 



Value of 

 Fish Landed 

 (excluding 

 Shell Fish). 



Value 



of 

 Shell 

 Fish 



taken. 



Principal 

 Kinds of Fish 

 Landed. 



Obnbral Rhmarrb. 



Crab creels. 



Creels, lines., 

 i and nets. 



titnes and 

 creels. 



Lines, nets, 

 and 



dredges. 



Lines. 



Lines and 



nets. 



Mussel 

 dredges. 

 Drift, seine, 

 and other 

 nets, also 

 lines. 



Otter 

 trawls. 



1 to 5 miles 

 offshore. 



Cwls. 



6,069 



Firth of Forth I 14,939 

 and off 

 May Lsland. 



Bag- nets 



Lines. 

 Gathering 



whelks. 

 Nets. 

 Lines. 

 Lines and 



nets. 



1 to 5 miles 

 offshore. ' 



Foreshores. 



In the Firth 

 of Forth. 



All throiijih 

 the North 



114 

 1.029 



30,98/ 



2,541 



030 

 1,647 



■212 

 1,2')(; 



94,124 190,088 



Upper reaches 

 of the Firth 

 of Forth. 



Foreshores. 



1.791 



1,646 



318 



525 



298 

 957 



588 

 40 



154 

 304 

 468 



103 

 569 



,.594 227,741 



248 

 185 



133 



Crabs. 



Crabs, herrings, 

 haddocks, etc. 



Codlings 

 haddocks. 



.nn 



Codlings, had- 

 docks, yilaicc, 

 and clams. 



Codlings. 



Mussels. 

 Herrings. 



Haddocks, cod- 

 lings, plaice, 

 etc. 



Codlings and 

 flounders. 



Sprats a n d 

 sparlings. 



Crab fishing is almost the only source of in- 

 j come. The > ear's catch was a poor one. 

 1 The great bulk of the income here is derived 

 j from the crab and lobster fishings ; other 

 : branches are declining, but this year's 

 1 earnings were about £650 higher than in 

 ] the preceding year. 



j Small catches of codlings and haddocks are 

 obtained. The earnings this year were 

 I less than usual. 



; These villages have an industrious popula- 

 i tion of fishermen who engage in the 

 I herring fishings at the principal Scottish j 

 j and English centres. Herring fishing i 

 t is their mainstay, but, owing to the i 

 j European crisis, their earnings from this ! 

 I source were comparatively poor. The | 

 1 home fisheries were carried on with much j 

 j energy in the spring and winter. j 

 Fishing unimportant. j 



Home fishing comparatively unimportant, j 

 Income derived princi]ially from herring | 

 fishing at the principal Scottish and I 

 English centres. 



Small quantities of mussels landed here. 



Herring fishing in the Firth of Forth is the 

 principal pursuit. The winter herring 

 \ fishing was highly successful, and aggre- j 

 j gated £10,520, being nuich in excess of \ 

 i any recent year's earnings. The sprat 

 j fishing failed again, and the other fisheries | 

 were not very productive. i 

 Trawling centre. The greatest number of 

 j vessels trawling was 71, an increase of 6 

 on the preceding year's fleet. The aggre- 

 gate (^atch was 13,823 cwts. less in quantity, 

 but only £810 less in value than in the | 

 preceding year. Considering that 27 of I 

 the trawlers ceased fishing, and were em- I 

 ployed by the Admiralty during the con- | 

 eluding five months of the year, and also 

 the restrictions put upon fishing towards 

 the close of the year, the results of the 

 year's work were astonishingly success- 

 ful. 



Sprat fishing unsuccessful, but codling and 

 flounder catch better than ever before. 



Although the sprat fishing was comparatively 

 light, the earnings derived from sparlings 

 and flounders made up a fairly prosperous 

 season's work. 



A poor sprat fishing here made the year's 

 earnings ratheriight. 



Fisheries unimportant. 



