CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT. 



Introductory Statement - 

 Fishery Districts - - - 



Matters requiring Legislation - 



SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS. 



Importance of Fishery Industry early recognised 



Claims of Crown - 



Number of Dutch Busses in 1667 - 



Restricted Sale of Herring in Fifteenth Century 



Royal Commission on British Fisheries in 1630 



Board of Trustees formed in 1727 



Bounties offered - 



,£56,000 paid in Five Years - - - - 

 Commissioners of British White Herring Fishery appointed 

 Increase in Take of Herring - 

 Fishery Officers appointed - 

 Fishery Cruisers - 

 Instructions to Officers - 

 Results of Seizing Undersized Nets - 

 Value of Fishery Statistics - 

 Chart showing Curing, &c, of Herring since 1809 

 Cod and Ling Fishery .... 

 Bounties Repealed - 

 Beginning of Scientific work - 

 Nature of Sprats determined - 

 Protection of Herring Fry - 

 Inquiry by Mr Henry Goodsir 

 Crustacea chief Food of Herring - 

 Nature of Herring Ov^a 

 Essay on Herring by Dr Walker - 

 Ballantrae Bank and Trammel Nets - 

 English Stations given up. Brand Fee instituted 

 Inquiries by Dr Ballot and by Board of Trade 

 Complaint against Trawling on Spawning Grounds - 

 Investigation ordered by Board of Fisheries - 

 No continuous Investigations carried on by Board 

 Sufficient Funds not yet provided to new Board 

 Effects of Trawling at Fluke Hole - 

 Inquiry as to Claims of Sprat Fishermen 

 Royal Commission appointed in 1862 

 Experiments by Professor Allman - 



