of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 41 



No. II. — continued. 



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 Fisli 

 Landed. 



No. of Curing Stations. 



General Remarks. 







Cwts. 



£ 



& 











Lines. 



Inshore. ^ 











fi 



1 







[ 



>> y 



i 



j 



% 



St. Magnus Y 

 Bay. J 

 1 to 40 miles^ 

 off. 



Inshore. 

 Round the y 

 island. 

 1 to 40 miles j 

 off. ) 

 Inshore. ^ 

 Burrahaaf. 1 

 1 to 50 miles 

 off. 



1,547 



249 





Herring ,saithe, 

 and haddocks. 



1 1 



1 



V i 



^-Although still far from satisfactory, there 

 | has been some increase in the quantity and 

 1 value of fish landed in this section. 



Nets and 

 lines. 

 Lines. 



Nets and 

 lines. 

 Lines. 



Nets and 

 lines. 



>» 



430 



1,898 



36,798 



93 



365 



11,378 



23 

 138 



Small-line fish. 



General — herr- 

 ings, haddocks, 

 and great-line 

 fish. 



(■ 



\ 1 

 ( 1 



1. 



< 1 



1 1 



( ■ 



2 



< 12 

 k • 



V-Owing to the failure of the herring fishing, 

 j and scarcity of haddocks in St. Magnus Ba> , 

 ^ the returns for the year were very poor. 



1 



| Herring fishing was a failure, consequently 

 y total yield of fisheries shows a decrease of 

 about 50 per cent., but there was an im- 

 provement in line-fishing, especially at 

 ) Foula. 



^ Owing to the continued decline of the herring 

 fishing, there was a decrease of over 20 per 

 cent/in the total value of fish landed. 

 There was, however, a great increase in the 

 y quantity and value of cod, ling, &c. — due 

 partly to the development of the cod-net 

 fishing. The small-line fishing, which was 

 very vigorously prosecuted, also yielded 



J an increased value. 







1448238 



448,019 



470 





109 







Nets and 

 lines. 



lhe Minch. 



1,840 



687 



264 



Cod, ling, and 

 eels. 





Fishing only occasionally prosecuted by local 

 craft. 







2,930 



704 



239 









>» 







190,436 



55,511 



344 



Herrings. 



35 



Winter and summer herring fishings have been 

 on the down grade for several seasons. 



■» 



Broadbay 

 and the 

 Minch. 



5,559 



1,666 



152 



Ling fish and 

 haddocks. 



1 



Very little fishing carried on by local boats. 

 Fishermen cure, occasionally, cod and ling 

 on their own account. 





Broadbay. 



4,055 

 1,689 



1 



1,344 

 721 



31 

 9 



Cod and ling. 



Haddocks. 



1 



Catch of cod and ling considerably less than 

 in 1910. 



There being little or no demand for haddocks 

 outside the district, the fishing 1 was merely 

 prosecuted for local consumption in the 

 Island. 



