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Buckie, Findhom, Cromarty, and Helmsdale Districts — Average 

 Fishing per Boat — Offshore and Inshore Fishing — Averages of 

 Buckie and Portgordon Bays — Old and Inferior Boats - - xxxix 



Lybster District — Best Fishing for Thirty years — Fishing chiefly 



Inshore - xxxix 



Wick District — Fishing very successful — Heavy Takes Inshore — 



Largest returns ever known - xxxix 



Orkney District — Successful Fishing in July — Immense Shoal at 

 Stronsay — Very Heavy Fishing — Many Nets lost — Highest average 

 Catch on record — New Curing Stations xxxix 



Shetland District — Erection of additional Premises — Increase of Boats 

 and Fishcurers — Number of Persons employed — Good order 

 maintained — Division of District ----- xl 



Lerwick Section — Increase of Decked Boats — Successful Fishing on 



West side — Average of best week ----- xl 



Unst Section — Successful Fishing in June — Unsettled Weather and 



Dog Fish -------- xl 



Shetland District — Produce of Season — Unparalleled Success — New 

 Fishing Ground — New Curing Stations — Effect of successful 

 Fishing -------- xli 



SUMMARY OF EAST COAST HERRING FISHERY. 



Summary of East Coast Herring Fishery xli 



Increase of 69,679^ Barrels in 1883 ----- xli 



Development of Fishery in Shetland ----- xli 



Barrels Cured in 1881, 1882, and 1883 - xli 



Herring Fleet - - - - - - - xli 



East Coast Fishery of last Fifty years ----- xli 



Yearly Average in periods of Ten years xli 



Increase per cent, on last Ten, Twenty -five, and Fifty years - - xlii 



WEST COAST HERRING FISHERY. 



West Coast Herring Fishery ------ xlii 



West Coast Districts ------- xlii 



Stornoway District — Fleet of 1117 Boats - xlii 

 Barra Section — Fishing fairly successful — Interrupted by Stormy 



Weather -------- xlii 



Stornoway Section — Length of Season — Fishing fairly successful 

 when Boats got to Sea — Fishing Grounds — Average Catch of 

 Section— Steamers and Tugs employed - - - - xlii 



Stornoway District — Average Catch of 1117 Boats — High Price of 



Herring — Barrels cured — 14,000 Crans Kippered - - - xlii 



Loch Broom District ------- xliii 



Loch Carron and Skye District — Only 10,421 Barrels cured, against 

 77,783 in 1882 — Great falling off in Fishing —Arrangements for 

 Season — Failure of Fishing in Loch Hourn — Large Shoals at Sea — 

 Mackerel in Loch Hourn — Mackerel supposed to keep Herring away xliii 

 Fort- William District — Improved Fishing — Fishing by Seine-Trawl 

 Nets caused Disturbance — 'Jackal' sent to restore Order — How 

 Seine-Trawl Net is used ------ xliii 



Inveraray District — Length of Season— Seine-Trawl and Drift Nets 

 — Most successful Season — Barrels Cured — Steamers employed — 

 Great Takes -------- xliii 



