of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



xi 



Year. 



To Germany.* 



To Russia. 



To America 





Barrels. 



Barrels. 



Barrels. 



1910 



982,361 



732,345 



73,409 



1911 



794,219 



655,814 



75,005 



1912 



719,013 



750,187 



93,471 



1913 



672,701 



619,680 



104,045 



1914 



353,323 



493,039 



115,347 



1 Ql ^ 



xXJxO . 





51,143 



45,385 



1916 





285,365 



46,281 



1917 





52,041 



16,109 



1918 







23,498 



1919 



! 287,3061 



134,885 



62,552 



* From 40 to 



50 per cent, of the total quantity of herrings exported 



Germany was, in normal circumstances, sent over the frontier to Russia and 

 other Eastern countries. 



The Board desire to place on record their appreciation of the 

 services rendered by the Committee of representatives of the industry, 

 a^nd particularly by Mr. George Slater, C.B.E., in the administration 

 of the guarantee, and the sale of the herrings handed over to the Board 

 under the scheme. 



Scottish Boats in England and Ireland. 



The East Anglian autumn herring fishing, for which, in response 

 to representations from all sections of the industry both in England 

 and Scotland, the Government sanctioned a guarantee scheme also, 

 was engaged in on a very much larger scale by Scottish fishermen 

 and curers than in 1918. In the formulation of this scheme the 

 experience gained in administering the Scottish scheme was drawn 

 upon, and as finally sanctioned by the Government it embodied two 

 important changes from that in force during the summer, viz. fisher- 

 men were guaranteed a fixed price per cran, which curers who wished 

 to participate in the scheme had to pledge themselves to pay, and 

 curers received payment of 90 per cent, of the cost price of their 

 cured herrings immediately after inspection and acceptance. As 

 the quantity of cured herrings which the Government undertook 

 to purchase was restricted to 600,000 barrels, the committee appointed 

 to operate the scheme had necessarily to be empowered to control 

 operations in the event of gluts occurring, but in practice no action 

 in this direction proved necessary, the stormy weather experienced 

 providing an effectual safeguard against overfishing. 



The results of the season's operations were only moderately re- 

 munerative to fishermen. Gross earnings in some cases reached as high 

 as £3000, but the average was probably less than half that amount, and 

 of this again one half would probably be absorbed by expenses and 

 in replacing lost gear, the number of nets lost owing to stormy weather 

 and congestion on the fishing grounds having been exceptionally 

 heavy. 



WHITE FISH FISHING. 



The quantity of white fish landed in 1919 was 2,134,335 cwts., 

 for which £3,786,623 was reahsed, an increase of 1,005,712 cwts., or 



