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Thirty-eighth Annual Report 



The quantity of white fish taken by nets was 85,270 cwts. This 

 figure is practically identical with that for last year, and represents 

 to a large extent the produce of the Moray Firth spring cod-net fishing. 



The principal species represented in the white fish supplies were, 

 among round fish, haddocks (42 per cent.) cod and codhng (30 per 

 cent.), saithe (5 per cent.), and ling (4 per cent.), and among flat fish, 

 plaice (3-2 per cent.) and hahbut (2 per cent.). 



It is interesting to note that by a vagary of pubUc taste turbot, 

 which before the war was the most highly esteemed of all fish, and 

 invariably realised the highest average price, has now given place to 

 halibut, which during the year under review reahsed £4, 17s. 5d. per 

 cwt., or 4s. 3d. per cwt. more than was obtained for turbot. 



In the following table the fishing grounds or areas from which the 

 Scottish white-fish supply was drawn in 1919 are shown, together 

 with the quantities of the various species taken from each : — 



Table showing the Quantity of each kind of Demersal Fish landed in 

 Scotland in 1919, and the Fishing Area from which taken. 



Kind of Fish. 



North Sea. 



Iceland 



and 

 Faroe. 



Western 

 Grounds. 



Mixed 

 Grounds. 



Irish 

 Grounds. 



Totals. 





Cwts.- 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cod and Codling 



413,841 



144,042 



76,090 



11,246 



4 



645,223 



Ling . . . 



40,621 



6,294 



35,467 



2,152 



128 



84,662 



Tusk 



2,153 



302 



2,145 



191 



8 



4,799 



Saithe ..... 



47,582 



20,711 



35,807 



2,898 



1 



106,999 



Hake 



7,759 



45 



2,077 



271 



1 



10,153 



Haddocks .... 



722,877 



109,096 



56,263 



15,708 





903,944 



Whitings . . 



76,782 



2,244 



4,567 



612 





84,205 



Turbot 



3,024 



3 



116 



10 





3,153 



Halibut .... 



15,612 



2,665 



24,057 

 69 



1,425 



425 



44,184 



BriU 



447 



2 



2 





520 



Lemon Soles .... 



14 ,103 



3,145 



407 



500 





18,155 



Flounders .... 



844 





2,090 







2,934 



Plaice ..... 



47,066 



4,396 



16,566 



525 





68,553 



Dabs 



6,350 



396 



353 



28 





7,127 



Whitches .... 



3,022 



775 



358 



57 





4,212 



Megrims .... 



7,222 



91 



635 



235 





8,183 



Conger Eels . . . 



410 



1 



13,492 



59 



"2 



13,964 



Skate 



50,570 



667 



29,278 



1,551 



39 



82,105 



Gurnards .... 



5,592 



16 



462 



39 





6,109 



Catfish 



10,449 



5,519 



40 



615 





16,623 



Monks ..... 



8,507 



525 



411 



232 





9,675 



Squids ..... 



19 





1 







20 



Other Kinds .... 



1,085 



6 



7,726 



'i6 





8,833 



Grand Totals .... 



1,485,937 



300,941 



308,477 



38,372 



608 



2,134,335 



Percentage 1919 



69-62 



1410 



14-45 



1-80 



•03 





Percentage 1918 



84-89 



•89 



1413 



•07 







The next table shows the quantity of white fish landed in each 

 district in each month of the year, together with the totals for 1918. 

 This table clearly illustrates the effect of the various factors which in- 

 fluenced fishing operations during the year, to which reference has 

 already been made. 



[Table. 



