of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



25 



No. II. — continued. 



Methods 

 of Fishing 

 Pursued. 



Position of 

 Principal 

 Fishing 

 Grounds. 



Quantity and 

 Value of 



Fish Landed 

 (excluding 

 Shell Fish). 



Value 



of 

 Shell 

 Fish 

 Taken. 



Principal 

 Kinds of Fish 

 Landed. 



No. of Curing Stations. 



General Remarks. 







Owts. 



£ 



£ 









Crab creels. 



i to 10 miles 

 offshore. 



224 



57 



866 



Crabs. 





Crab fishing the principal industry. The 

 j'early catch never varies much. 



Nets, lines, 

 and creels. 



Lines and 

 creels. 



and 



dredges. 



Lines. 



Lines and 

 nets. 



Firth of Forth 

 and off the 

 May Island, 



1 to 5 miles 

 offshore. 

 i> 



6,247 



457 

 11,619 



137 

 965 



2,773 



179 

 8,164 



126 

 658 



1,779 



364 

 1 197 



24 

 25 



Crabs, herrings, 

 and codlings. 



Shell fish. 



docks, plaice, 

 and clams. 



Codlings. 



Codlings and 

 plaice. 



1 



Crabs are the mainstay. Fishing is not 

 successful, but the aggregate earnings 

 were slightly higher than last year's. 



Very little change. Fishing not prosperous. 



tion of fishermen who engage in the 

 herring fishings at the principal Scottish 

 and English centres with much success. 

 From these their chief income is derived, 

 but this year they were not very success- 

 ful. The home fishings fell off"^ by about 

 £2000 as compared with the earnings in 1911 

 Fishings unimportant. 



The home fishings are not productive, and 

 appear to be yearly declining. The 

 principal income is derived from herring 

 fishing at the Scottish and English centres. 



Mussel 

 dredges. 



Foreshores. 







287 



Mussels. 



4 



Small quantities of mussels and clams are 

 landed here as a convenient place for dis- 

 tribution by rail and steamer. 



Trawl, drift, 

 seine, and 

 other nets 

 also lines. 



Trawling, 

 principally 

 10 to 150 

 miles off 

 May Island ; 

 also off 

 Aberdeen- 

 Orkney 

 and Shet- 

 land. 



13,029 



6,190 



167 



Herrings and 

 codlings. 



1 



The net and line fishings, in which the bulk 

 of the resident Newhaven fishermen are 

 engaged, gave poor results. The herring 

 fishing was not successful, and the sprat 

 fishing failed entirely. As compared with 

 the preceding year, the decrease in earn- 

 ings was about £600. 



Otter 

 trawls. 



Nets and 

 lines in 

 Firth of 

 Forth. 



320,250 



178,598 



134 



Haddocks, cod- 

 lings, whit- 

 ings, soles, 

 plaice, etc. 





Gran ton is the centre of the local trawling 

 industry, where about 80 steam trawlers 

 make their landings. Owing to strikes 

 and labour disputes the work had spells of 

 iiifccmiptioDt 3.ncl in*xinly to this cstiisc the 

 aggregate catch shows a decrease, as com- 

 pared with the preceding year, amounting 

 in round numbers to 60,000 cwts. and 

 £8000. 



Bag-nets. 

 .. 



Lines. 



Upper reaches 

 of Firth of 

 Forth. 



.. 



Foreshores. 



987 



1,294 

 1,668 

 240 



229 



968 

 447 

 99 





Sprats and 

 sparlings. 



Codlings. 





^ Bag-net fishing is almost the only method 

 i carried on at these villages, and the fish 

 I usually caught are sprats and sparlings 

 (' The sprat fishing failed, and altogether the 

 1 district earnings from sprats fell off by 



) £1300 as compared with the preceding 



year s result. 

 Fisheries unimportant. 



Gathering 

 whelks. 

 Nets. 



Lines and 

 nets. 





295 

 513 



656 



254 

 878 



119 

 264 



386 



118 



518 



37 



* 14 



* 37 



Whelks. 



Herrings. 

 Codlings. 



Codlings and 

 herrings. 



Codlings and 

 plaice. 











359,713 



199,893 



4,931 



6 

















