Fishery Board for Scotla^rid. 



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and other persons employed ; with the estimated value of boats, 

 beam trawl vessels, nets, and lines. 



Table III. Appendix D, shows the tonnage of shipping and the Tonnage of 

 number of seamen engaged in the trade of the herring, and number of^Sea- 

 cod, and ling fisheries of Scotland, last year, distinguishing those men engaged, 

 employed in importing stave wood, hoops, and salt, in carrying her- 

 rings or cod-fish coastwise, or exporting them abroad ; and distin- 

 guishing British from foreign tonnage and men. 



The total tonnage of boats and vessels, and the number of persons Tonnage of 

 employed in the herring, cod, ling, and other sea fisheries of Scot- ^"^^ 

 land in 1885, as against 1884, were 



Abstract. 



Total Tonnage of Boats and Vessels and Number of 

 Persons employed. 



British. 



Foreign. 



Years, 



Tons. 



Persons. 



Tons. 



Persons. 



1884, . 

 1885, 



Increase in 1885, 

 Decrease in 1885, . 



315,9141 

 328,8024 



114,337 

 113,007 



74,817 

 63,534 



3,739 

 3,140 



12,888 



1,330 



11,283 



599 



Vessels and 

 Persons em- 

 ployed. 



Table IV. Appendix D, gives abstract accounts of the tonnage of Abstract of 

 vessels and number of men ; the tonnage of boats and number of Person?em-^ 

 fishermen and boys ; and the number of other persons employed in ployed, 

 the herring, cod, and ling, and other sea fisheries of Scotland last 

 year. 



Table V. Appendix D, shows the number of lives lost in con- Lives Lost at 

 nection with the sea fisheries of Scotland; the number of ^oats ^^^'^^^^^^^ ^ 

 totally wrecked, and value thereof ; the number of boats damaged, Nets,Tc. ^' 

 and amount of damage ; and the loss on nets and other fishing 

 material lost or damaged, last year. 



Building of Fishing Boats and Steam Trawlers. 



Owing to the great depression in the herring markets during the Orders for 

 last two years, scarcely any fishing boats were built in 1885, with Fishing Boats, 

 the exception of a few of the largest size, ranging from 50 to steam Vessels 

 upwards of 60 feet keel. Several steam vessels were built for beam buiit for Beam 

 trawling and line fishing, as well as for herring fishing, which o^^^er^^fifilJ^ 

 were fitted up with the most approved appliances. Some fishing 

 boats were recently equipped at Buckie, with engines and capstans ^J^^"^ ^^l^^iox 

 for hauling nets, worked by steam power. In view of the Firth of hauUng^Nets. 

 Forth being closed against beam trawling, the General Steam 



