iv Thirty-fifth Annual Report 



Summary of Means of Capture and Results. 





Number 



Value 01 



Total Catch. 



xear. 



01 



Boats and 









Vessels. 



Ijrear. 



maantity.* 



^7 1 



Value. 







£ 



Cwts. 



£ 



1907 



10,365 



4,857,816 







1908 



10,078 



5,223,149 



8,645,252 



2,512,162 







^ 9Q1 1^^^ 



7,423,185 



2,889,107 



1910 



9,724 



5,439,857 



8,709,655 



3,100,387 



1911 



9,543 



5,628,087 



8,511,974 



3,127,929 



1912 



9,290 



5,777,102 



8,587,106 



3,656,178 



1913 



8,991 



6,035,952 



7,828,350 



3,997,717 



1914 



8,869 



6,297,745 



7,440,321 



3,208,536 



1915 



4,653 



1,668,765 



2,319,390 



2,109,465 



1916 



4,650 



1,827,346 



3,412,030 



3,206,550 



* Excluding shell-fish, which are sold partly by number {e.g., oysters) and partly 

 by weight {e.g., mussels), and have no common measure except value. 



Changes in Means of Capture. 



The figures for the year 1916 as to the number and value of the 

 boats, etc., engaged in the Scottish fisheries during the year, given 

 above and in Appendix A, do not include the vessels engaged in the 

 service of the country, or unemployed on account of the Admiralty 

 restrictions of the fishing area or the lack of crews to man them. 



In regard to the steam fishing fleet there is little to record. A 

 number of steam trawlers were built, but they were very little 

 engaged in fishing, being taken over for national work as soon as 

 possible, while the building of steam drifters practically ceased. . 



The installation of motor engines into sailing boats has, however, 

 been proceeding apace with undoubted advantage to all concerned. 

 The number of boats actually employed at the fishing is shown in 

 Appendix A, but if boats engaged otherwise than at fishing or 

 unemployed during the year are taken into account, the Scottish 

 motor fishing fleet at the end of 1916 numbered 984, an increase 

 of 173 over the total for the previous year. The outstanding feature 

 of the year in this connection was the increase in the number of 

 boats of the largest size propelled by motor engines; the number 

 added to this section of the fleet was nearly half the total increase. 

 Substantial as is the increase reported, it would undoubtedly have 

 been much greater but for the difficulties experienced by the makers 

 in supplying and installing engines, a large number of orders given 

 during the year being still unfulfilled. 



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