Id6 Appendices to Thirty-first Annual Mepori 



Twenty boats were engaged at great-line fishing from Hartlepool in 

 the spring, their gross average earnings being approximately £150 each. 



Only six steam drifters, four motor boats, and one sailer proceeded 

 to Yarmouth and Lowestoft. The average gross earnings of th€ 

 drifters were £660, of motors £292, and of the sailer £185. 



The damage to and loss of vessels and gear is fully shown in 

 Appendix F., No. 3, the total wreck of a Dundee trawler off Cairnbulg 

 last January being the most serious loss sustained. The value of gear 

 lost or damaged at the English fishings was £742 — almost the same as in 

 1911. 



It is gratifying to report that no lives were lost in connection with the 

 industry. 



Coopers were steadily employed throughout the year, and owing to 

 the big demand for barrels from Yarmouth and Lowestoft during the 

 progress of the herring fishing there, they are assured of regular work, 

 with good wages, for this year also. 



Two steam trawlers, costing £7000 each, were built at Dundee for 

 English owners. 



The fishery barometers at Broughty Ferry and Arbroath ai-e in good 

 order. 



The Montrose Harbour Commissioners are meantime expending the 

 sum of about £8000 on enlarging and improving the fish jetty. The 

 contractor hopes to have the work completed in the autumn, and when 

 finished it is anticipated that it will be the means of popularising this 

 port and increasing its importance. The facilities for the expeditious 

 discharging of fish will, on the completion of the improvements, be 

 most convenient, and all the requirements of a modern fishing centre 

 will be available. 



Frederick FRiSER, 

 Fishery Office, Fishery Officer. 



MoNTROSB, 6th January 1913, 



Stonehaven Distnct. 



The results of the fisheries of this district (excluding shell-fish) for the 

 year 1912 show a decrease from the totals of the previous year to the 

 extent of 2031 cwts. in quantity and £474 in value. The value of 

 shell-fish declined to the extent of £466, making a total decrease in value 

 of £940. Herrings, codlings, and haddocks were chiefly accountable 

 for the decrease, the only variety showing an increase being whitings. 

 The weather conditions were much against successful fishing throughout 

 a considerable portion of the year, and both fishermen and curers 

 experienced a rather unprofitable season. 



The means of capture returns continue to show a falling-off in the 

 numbers of fishermen and boats, and the quantity of fishing material. 

 The fishermen of the district are, unfortunately, not in a position to 

 obtain for their herring and haddock boats the auxiliary power which 

 evidently is now essential to the successful prosecution of the fisheries. 

 The business men of Stonehaven, unlike those of some other 

 districts, have never taken any interest in the fostering and 

 developing of the fisheries. The village of Crawton no longer exists as a 

 fishing station owing to the houses having been condemned as uninhabi- 

 table. Of the two boats' crews lately resident, there, one has gone to 

 Stonehaven and the other to Gourdon. 



The summer herring fishing commenced about the middle of June, 

 and terminated very abruptly about the 20th of August, when several 

 boats proceeded to Scarborough. The season which then closed proved 



