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Thirty -first Annual Report 



The estimated value of cod, ling, and other fish, other than herrings, 

 cured or preserved was £836,121, or £81,883 more than the return for 

 1911. Smoked and "filleted" fish contributed £525,152 of the total, 

 the remainder being made up of £301,149 in respect of dried fish, and 

 £9820 in respect of pickled cod. (Appendix E, No. IV.) 



As in previous years, Aberdeen District contributed the bulk of 

 the return, 90 per cent, of the total being attributable to that district. 



The total value of all fish cured in 1912 was £3,617,252, or 

 £471,987 more than in the preceding year. 



Towards this total — which is a fresh record — Aberdeen contributed 

 £871,605, Shetland £703,770, Peterhead £403,317, . Fraserburgh 

 £366,639, Wick £364,004, Orkney £314,416, and Stornoway £182,848. 



V. Cured Cod, Ling, etc., Expoeted. 



The total export of dried cod, etc., from Scotland amounted to 

 169,812 cwts., being 13,900 cwts. greater than the previous year's 

 export (Appendix E, No, 11.) Of this total, 106,123 cwts. were 

 exported to Europe, 45,929 cwts. to places out of Europe (chiefly 

 America), and 17,760 cwts. to Ireland. 



In Aberdeen district (p. 194 of Appendices) those engaged in the 

 tinning industry have lately introduced a new system of putting up 

 cutlets of cod and " fillets " in tins, and 2 lb. cutlets of cured-dried 

 ling in pasteboard boxes and grease-proof paper parcels for the home 

 and foreign markets. 



Only 2600 barrels of cured fish roes (for use as bait in the French 

 sardine fisheries) were exported from Aberdeen last year, the falling- 

 off from the previous year's export being due to the laying up of 

 trawlers during the coal strike, and to the failure of the French 

 sardine fishery. 



Nearly 3300 barrels of mackerel were cured and exported — two- 

 thirds to America and one-third to Norway. The latter export was 

 brought about by the visit of eight small Scandinavian craft — motor 

 boats and sailing vessels — to Shetland, where their crews purchased 

 from British fishermen and cured on board over 1000 boxes of fish. 

 The Shetland curers also pickled a few hundred barrels of mackerel, 

 and these also were exported. 



PEESONS ENGAGED IN THE SCOTTISH SEA FISHERIES 

 AND ALLIED INDUSTPJES. 



The number of persons engaged in connection with the various 

 branches of the Scottish fishing industry in 1912 was 90,040 

 (Appendix F, No. I.) — a net increase, as compared with 1911, of 888. 



This increase was attributable mainly to the greater number of 

 persons of British nationality who were engaged in the transport of 

 cured fish and curing stock (of whom 1478, or 20 per cent., more were 

 employed than in the preceding year), and resulted in the displacement 

 from the same industry of 516 foreigners. The number of fishermen 

 (38,759) was 133 more than in 1912, while other occupations which 

 afforded increased employment were net-making (an industry which 

 continues to make steady progress), carting, clerical work, and box- 

 making and stave-cutting. All the other occupations enumerated 

 showed decreases of varying degree, the greatest absolute falling off 

 occurring amongst gutters and packers and boat-builders. 



