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war, viz., the practice of foreign fishing vessels of trawling in the 

 Moray Firth, from which British trawlers are excluded. During 

 1920 foreign vessels began to frequent the Firth in increasing 

 numbers, as the result of which feeling among British fishermen on 

 this matter has become very embittered, and the Board feel that the 

 present position, which in effect confers preferential treatment on 

 foreign as compared with British vessels, is altogether anomalous. 



We conclude this chapter by appending a table epitomising the 

 results of the Scottish fisheries during the past decade : — 



Summary of Means of Capture and Eesults. 



Year. 



Number of 

 Vessels. 



Value of Boats 

 and Gear. 



Total 



Quantity 

 (excluding 

 shell fish). 



Catch. 



Value 

 (including 

 shell fish). 







£ 



Cwts. 



£ 



1911 - 



9,543 



5,628,087 



8,511,974 



3,127,929 



1912 - 



9,290 



5,777,102 



8,587,106 



3,656,178 



1913 - 



8,991 



6,035,952 



7,828,350 



3,997,717 



1914 - 



8,869 



6,297,745 



7,440,321 



3,208 ; 536 



1915 - 



4,653 



1,668,765 



2,319,390 



2,109,465 



1916 - 



4,650 



1,827,346 



3,412,030 



3,206,550 



1917 - 



4,609 



1,902,167 



3,079,768 



3,704,789 



1918 - 



4,614 



3,038,592 



3,313,228 



6,066.588 



1919 - 



6,534 



9,223,456 



5,968,866 



6,147,945 



1920 - 



8,177 



11,916,468 



6,325,939 



6,626,829 



CHAPTER II. 



MEANS OF CAPTURE AND PERSONS ENGAGED. 



With the release of the last of the Scottish fishermen and of the 

 larger vessels from Admiralty and other war service the personnel 

 and material employed in the Scottish fishing industry were for the 

 first time since the outbreak of war brought up to normal strength. 

 The practice adopted during the war, when the great majority of the 

 vessels were either on service or laid up, of showing only those 

 vessels which were actually engaged in fishing has therefore been 

 abandoned, and all fishing vessels, gear and men belonging to Scotland, 

 together with vessels, etc. fishing from Scottish ports, although owned 

 elsewhere, are again included in the relative Table A., No. 1 (p. 3), 

 together with details of the quantities and values of the various 

 kinds of fishing gear employed. 



Table A., No. 2, the printing of which was suspended during the 

 war, re-appears in the Tables to this Report (p. 1.6), and in this 



