THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 



HAROLD J. TENNANT, M.P., 

 His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland,. 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 15^ April 1916. 



Sir,— 



In terms of the Act 45 and 46 Vict., c. 78, we, the Fishery Board for 

 Scotland, have the honour to present this, our Thirty-fourth Annual 

 Report, being for the year 1915 : — 



PART L-GENERAL STATEMENT. 



The conditions and circumstances under which the fishing industry 

 was carried on in Scotland after August 1914, as indicated by us last 

 year, have not varied much in the year now under report. In 1914 

 we had only five months under war conditions to report upon ; we 

 have now a whole year. The longer period of restriction in 1915 has, 

 of course, told on the comparative results, as the statistics show. 



It is gratifying that the apprehensions with regard to the unsold 

 stock of cured herrings on hand in Scotland in 1914 have not material- 

 ised to the extent which was feared. While it is true that many 

 curers and exporters suffered from the loss of the usual Continental 

 markets, it is satisfactory that the whole industry and those directly 

 dependent on it did not suffer to the extent anticipated. 



A modifying influence was the extent to which the historical 

 connection between the Navy and the fishermen of Scotland was 

 realised, thus demonstrating the truth of the preamble of the old 

 Scottish Act of Parliament of 1756 (29 Geo. n. cap. xxiii.) intituled 

 " An Act for encouraging the Fisheries in that part of Great Britain 

 called Scotland " that " Whereas the extending and improving of the 



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