CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



General Statement .... 1 



1. The Influence of Beam Trawling ..... 2 



The Trawling Experiments of the ' <3rarland ' . . .3 



The Spawning Grounds of Plaice and other Food Fishes . . 4 



The Capture and Destruction of Immature Fish ... 5 

 The Fishing Grounds on the West Coast .... 5 



2. Fishery Statistics ....... 6 



3. Special Inquiries ....... 8 



Inquiries into the Food, Maturity, and Habits of the Food Fishes 8 

 Inquiries into the Supplies of Bait . . . .10 



Inquiries in connection with Inland Waters, &c. . . . 12 



Physical Observations . . . . . .13 



4. Contemporary Fishery Work . . . . .13 



SECTION A. — GENERAL REPORTS. 



I. Report on the Trawling Experiments of the ' Garland,' and on the 

 Statistics of East Coast Fisheries. — Part III. (Plates I. and II.) . 15 

 I. Introductory . . . . . . .15 



II. The Work of the ' Garland ' 16 



1. The Firth of Forth ...... 16 



2. St Andrews Bay ...... 18 



3. Other East Coast Districts . . . . .18 



III. Special Statistics of Fish caught by Line Fishermen and Beam- 



trawlers ....... 18 



1. Buckhaven Haddock and Cod Line Fishery . . 19 



2. Relative Quantities of Fish taken by Line and by Beam 



Trawl ....... 20 



3. Statistics showing the Quantities of Line caught Fish 



obtained from the Areas where Trawling is prohibited, 



and the adjacent Areas where Trawling is allowed . 22 



4. Special Statistics of Fishing Boats . . . .26 



IV. Summary and Conclusions ..... 27 



Table A. — Summary of Fish taken by the 1 Garland ' on the 



East Coast in 1888 . . . . .30 



Table B. — Analysis of the ' Garland's ' Statistics . .34 



Table C. — Record of Observations made on Board the 'Garland ' 



on the East Coast ..... 37 



Table D. — Buckhaven Haddock and Cod Line Fishing . 103 



