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Appendices to Thirtieth Annual Report 



Tablb showing the Number of Boats employed in each Week during the 

 Herring Fishing Season of 1911, the Highest Shots and Weekly 

 Landings, with Prices obtained for Fresh and Cured Herrings. 



Week 

 ended 



Number of Boats. 



Steam Motor Sail. 



1911. 



13th May 



70 



15 



22 



20th „ 



67 



24 



33 



27th „ 

 3rd June 



69 



31 



50 



78 



40 



61 



10th „ 



102 



31 



70 



17th „ 



92 



30 



71 



24 th 

 1st July 



79 



32 



83 



113 



35 



80 



8th „ 



130 



38 



119 



loth „ 



150 



27 



110 



22nd „ 



119 



32 



113 



29th „ 

 5th Aug. 



143 



38 



151 



205 



46 



165 



12th „ 



197 



45 



175 



19th „ 



129 



33 



105 



26th „ 



129 



42 



149 



2nd Sept. 



136 



35 



128 



9th „ 



87 



32 



121 



Highest 

 Shots. 



Total 

 Week. 



Average 

 Prices for 



Fresh 

 Herrings. 



Cran 



\s rCtivS » 



Per Prnn 

 rev \yi cc/t-. 







s. d. 



37 



2,710 



12 2 



22 



1766 



19 3 



30 



2.' 937 



21 0 



40 



4. 745 



16 5 



43 



5!S48 



12 1 



52 



6^47 



17 2 



40 



4,817 



17 7 



46 



8.909 



21 9 



53 



12,917 



19 8 



60 



11,102 



17 0 



60 



16,628 



17 2 



65 



19,740 



17 0 



48 



16,732 



21 5 



70 



21,720 



20 11 



49 



7,211 



24 1 



116 



7,019 



28 9 



170 



11,638 



27 9 



68 



5,075 



27 6 



Average Prices of 

 Cured Herrings. 



Per Barrel. 



C. La. Full 



Full, 6ZS 

 „ Mat. Full, 31s 

 „ Mattie, 

 „ La. Spent, 18: 



34s. 6d. 

 0d. 

 3d. 



25s. 4d. 



Spent, 



18s. Od. 



Unbranded ) 



Early V5s. to 18s. 

 Herrings, J 



Berwick, 10th January 1912. 



David Rosie, 



Fishery Officer 



Leith District. 



The principal methods of fishing carried on in this district are steam 

 trawling and line, drift, seine, and bag-net fishing. 



The industry pursued its usual course during the year, and. except for a 

 further marked improvement in the trawl catch, there was no notable feature. 



The quantity of fish landed for the year was 429,832 cwts., and, including 

 shell fish, the value was .£213,620, showing an increase of 54,614 cwts. and 

 .£14,190 as compared with the preceding year's returns, which increase is 

 practically all accounted for by the greater landings of the trawlers. 



The trawl catch was the heaviest ever landed here, and it contributed 88 

 per cent, of the district total landings, the remainder being the contribution 

 of the sail boats operating in or near the Firth of Forth. There were, in all, 

 about 72 steam trawlers working from Gran ton, a decrease of eight vessels 

 from the number at work in the preceding year. Five trawlers were 

 wrecked and totally lost, and five sold out of the district in the course of the 

 year. About 60 of the trawlers usually made two landings per week, their 

 shots ranging from 20 to 80 boxes, and the remainder were generally weekly 

 voyagers whose shots ranged from 80 to 360 boxes, the latter being the heaviest 

 of the year. The vessels continued to work on the same areas as formerly, 

 obtaining the bulk of their catches from 5, 10, 20, to 80 miles in the radius 

 N.E. to S.E. from the May Island, and occasionally out to 160; while the 

 weekly voyagers worked out to 200 miles from the May, and occasionally off 

 Aberdeenshire, Orkney, and Shetland. There has been a remarkable increase 

 in the aggregate trawl catch in the past two years, and its continued success 

 is shown in the further increase of this year, notwithstanding the fact that 

 there was a decrease in the fleet. It is notable, too, that the increase of 

 this year was nearly all in haddocks and codlings, which were generally of a 

 good marketable size, and it was fortunate that the very small haddocks 

 which were so prevalent during the preceding year did not this time appear 



