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Thirty -first Anmial Report 





Before Act 

 Operation 



IN 



After Act in Operation. 



Nationality 



1907-8 



1908-9 



1909-10 



1910-11 



1 Ql 



1 1 9 



OF 



Trawlers. 





























j3 







02 







fl 





a; 







O 



a> 







.2 









1 







'S 





*M 



















O 



o 





o 

 o 





o 

 a 



d 



o 

 o 





u 

 H 



o 



H 



O 



H 



O 



H 



O 



H 





Norwegian, 



i D 



1 7 1 

 111 





119 



7 

 < 



1 HQ 



Q 

 O 



1 Al 



7 



84 



Swedish, 



1 



3 







1 



1 



1 



8 



8 



28 



Danish, 



8 



25 



16 



99 



9 



60 



1 



10 



2 



14 



Total Scandinavian, 



25 



199 



29 



211 



17 



164 



10 



159 



1 7 

 1 1 



1 9fi 



German, 



1 



2 



1 



1 



5 



12 



16 



33 



28 



55 



Dutch, . 



2 



2 



6 



8 



7 



15 



11 



15 



10 



24 



Belgian, 



8 



27 



10 



19 



9 



26 



3 



6 



5 



18 



a^otal, . . . 



11 



31 



17 



28 



21 



53 



30 



54 



43 



97 



Grand 

 Total, 



36 



230 



46 



239 



38 



217 



40 



213 



60 



223 



The trawling by vessels registered, though in most (if not all) 

 cases not actually owned in Scandinavian countries, shows a 

 considerable decrease, but the development of the trawling industry 

 in Germany and Holland has to a large extent counter-balanced that 

 decrease. The Dutch and Belgian trawlers, it may be mentioned, 

 chiefly frequent the Firth during the early spring, when the cod enter 

 it to spawn, and are seldom seen during the remainder of the year. 



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 

 cases of such confiscation have come under the notice of the Board. 



Contemporaneously with the operation of the Act, the following is 

 the result of the fishing in the Moray Firth by means of lines and 

 cod nets, the latter a comparatively new method of fishing : — 



Amount and Value of White-fish landed at Moray Firth Ports . 



1909-1913. 



Year. Cwts. £ 



1909, . . 114,129 54,029 



1910, . . 168,564 72,649 



1911, . . 169,809 79,243 



1912, . . 214,451 93,804 



