of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



No. II.— -continued. 



25 



Methods 

 of Fishing 

 Pursued. 



Position of 

 Principal 

 Fishing 

 Grounds. 



Quantity and 

 Value of 



Fish Landed 

 (excluding 

 Shell Fish). 



Value 



of 

 Shell 

 Fish 

 Taken. 



Principal 

 Kinds of Fish 

 Landed. 



No. of Curing Stations. 



General Remarks. 







Cwts. 



£ 



£ 









Crab creels. 



Nets, lines, 

 and creels. 



Lines and 

 creels. 

 Nets, lines, 

 and dredges. 



Lines. 



Lines and 

 nets. 



Mussel 

 dredges. 



Trawl, drift, 

 seine, and 

 other nets, 

 also lines. 



Otter 

 trawls. 



Bag- nets. 



Lines. 

 Gathering 

 whelks. 

 Nets. 



Lines and 

 nets. 



1 to 10 miles 

 offshore. 



Firth of Forth 

 and off May 

 Island 



1 to 5 miles 

 offshore. 



Foreshores. 



r Trawling, > 

 princi- 

 pally 10 

 to 150 

 miles off 

 May 

 Island, 

 also off 

 < the Ork- 

 neys and 

 Shet- 

 lands. 

 Nets and 

 lines in 

 Firth of 

 v Forth. J 

 Upper reaches 

 of Firth of 

 Forth, 

 ii 



Foreshores. 



pi 

 >• 



>> 



341 

 5,991 



769 

 15,370 



200 

 1,209 



15,569 

 330,318 



1,799 



1,903 



3,221 



87 

 9 



269 

 421 



735 



1,014 

 607 



100 

 2,402 



342 

 10,058 



91 

 745 



5,610 

 185,318 



461 



937 



690 



40 

 3 



77 

 237 



374 



373 

 360 



907 

 1,895 



313 

 1,487 



24 

 2 



284 

 162 

 147 



' 41 

 4 



136 



Crabs. 



Crabs, haddocks, 

 and codlings. 



Haddocks and 

 crabs. 



Haddocks, cod- 

 lings, plaice, 

 and clams. 



Codlings. 



Mussels. 



Herrings, sprats, 

 and codlings 



Haddocks, cod- 

 lings, soles, 

 plaice, etc. 



Codlings and 

 sprats. 



Sprats, spar- 

 lings, and eels. 

 Sprats. 



Codlings. 

 Whelks. 



Herrings. 

 Codlings. 



Codlings and 



herrings. 

 Herrings. 

 Codlings and 



flounders. 



1 



4 

 1 



Crab fishing principal industry. Results about 



same as in previous year. 

 The industry appears to be declining here. 



Crabs are the mainstay, and showed an 



increase. 



Very little change. Fishing not prosperous. 



These villages have a very industrious popula- 

 tion of fishermen who follow the herring 

 fishings at the principal Scottish and 

 English centres with much success, and 

 from these their chief income is derived. 

 The home fishings, which are not of much 

 importance comparatively, gave this year 

 an increase in all the principal kinds of fish. 



Fishings unimportant. 



The home fishings are not productive. The 

 principal income is derived from herring 

 fishing at the Scottish and English centres. 

 The local fisheries appear to be declining. 



Small quantities of mussels and clams are 

 landed here as a convenient place for dis- 

 tribution. Fishing generally gave poor 

 results ; as compared with the preceding 

 year there was a decrease in the income of 

 nearly £2,000. Sprats were the only item 

 that showed an increase. 



! 



> At Granton about 74 trawl vessels regularly 

 landed their catches, about two-thirds of 

 which were carted to and sold at Newhaven , 



! the remainder being usually railed direct 

 to Glasgow. The trawling industry was 

 generally successful ; the aggregate catch 

 and value were the largest on record, ex- 

 ceeding the preceding year's returns by 

 52,269 cwts. and £14,564, the increase 

 being principally in haddocks and codlings. 



^ Bag-net fishing is almost the only method 

 carried on at these villages, and the fish 

 I principally obtained are sprats, sparlings, 

 [ and codlings. The sprat fishing gave much 

 better results this year than last, but on 

 J the whole the year's gross earnings show 



very little improvement. 

 Fisheries unimportant. 



>! It 

 11 It 



1) II 







429,832 



208,218 



5,402 



6 





Nets and 



lines. 

 Lines and 



creels. 



Firth of Forth 



Along the 

 shore. 



4,617 

 147 



2,217 

 70 



23 

 18 



Herrings and 

 haddocks. 



Codlings and 

 plaice. 





Slight increase in the quantity of white fish 

 landed. The shell fisheries show a f alii ng off. 



Catch about the same as in previous year. 

 Very little fishing carried on. 



