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Appendices to Thirty-first Annual Report 



Table showing the Number of Boats employed in each Week during the 

 Herring Fishing Season of 1912, the Highest Shots and Weekly 

 Landings, with Prices obtained for Fresh and Cured Herrings. 



Week 

 ended 



1912. 



11th Mav 



18th 



25th „ 



1st June 



8th „ 



loth „ 



22nd 



29th 

 6th 



13th 



20th 



27th „ 



3rd Aug. 



10th „ 



17th , 



24th „ 



31st „ 



7th Sept. 



July 



Number of Boats. 



Steam Motor Sail 



91 

 92 

 88 

 117 

 217 

 207 

 137 

 66 



38 

 39 

 40 

 44 

 42 

 37 

 32 

 3S 

 20 



23 

 23 

 27 

 33 

 41 

 58 

 54 

 65 

 64 

 88 

 94 

 93 

 124 

 133 

 105 

 114 

 125 

 137 



Highest 

 Shots. 



Crans. 



36 

 23 

 54 

 60 

 33 

 34 

 36 

 54 

 35 

 47 

 40 

 29 

 39 

 79 

 140 

 74 



Total 

 Catch for 

 Week. 



Crans. 



1,406 

 1,521 

 3,641 

 6,620 

 4,358 

 5,001 

 4,420 

 10,314 

 6,826 

 10,896 

 6,637 

 6,632 

 9,951 

 12,193 

 11,377 

 11,930 

 6,528 

 4,006 



Average 

 Prices for 



Fresh 

 Herrings. 



Pe7- Gran. 

 s. d. 

 17 5 

 21 6 

 19 8 

 13 0 

 25 8 

 24 

 26 

 16 

 24 

 16 

 22 

 30 



0 

 7 

 6 

 1 

 9 

 5 

 7 



26 11 

 28 6 

 32 2 

 28 1 

 31 5 

 31 11 



Average Prices of 

 Cured Herrings. 



Per Barrel. 



C. La. Full, 40s. Od. 



., Full, 37s. lOd. 



„ Mat. Full, 36s. 2d. 



Mattie, 28s. 4d. 



„ La. Spent, 27s. 4d. 



Spent, 24s. Od. 



Branded, 33s. 

 Unbranded,31s. 



2d. 

 3d. 



Fishery Office, 

 Berwick, ^th January 1913. 



David Rosie, 



Fishery Officer 



Leith District, 



In its principal features the fishing industry showed no marked 

 changes from the results of the preceding year; the trawling industry 

 was successful, the other branches were not. As compared with the 

 preceding year's results, the weight and value of the aggregate catch 

 shows a decrease of 70,119 cwts. and £8796. As is usually the case, 

 nearly 89 per cent, of the district's total landings was contributed by 

 the 75 to 80 steam trawl vessels which worked regularly from Granton. 

 Although several sales, exchanges, and one total loss by wreck took 

 place in the trawl fleet in the course of the year, in number it remained 

 about the same as in 1911, and there is little doubt that the catch and 

 its value would have been as high as in the .preceding year — which was 

 the best in its history — but for the fact that the work had two long 

 spells of interruption through strikes and labour disputes which con- 

 siderably reduced the catch, and tended at the same time to increase 

 the working expenses. The trawling results, therefore, fell off by 

 60,068 cwts. and .£6733 as compared with the preceding year's totals, 

 and the decrease was most apparent in haddocks, soles, and plaice. 

 From 60 to 70 of the trawlers w^orked principally on the near grounds, 

 making generally about two landings per week, their catches ranging 

 from 20, 60, up to 80 boxes; the remainder of the fleet made weekly 

 voyages, their shots ranging from about 80 up to 450 boxes, the latter 

 being the heaviest of the year. The bulk of the catch was obtained 

 in areas off the May Island, where, in fact, the bulk of the supplies 

 have been secured during many years past without any very apparent 

 decrease. These areas were 5, 10, 20, to 80 miles in the radius N.E. 

 to S.E., and occasionally out to 160 miles. The weekly voyagers 

 worked out to 200 miles and over from the May Island, but towards 



