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£1600, and sail boats from £400 to £1340. Men who served as hired 

 hands on the East Coast had poor earnings. At some of the creeks 

 lobster fishing was successfully prosecuted, but prices were not always 

 remunerative. Great-lining was not followed to any great extent. The 

 canning factory and ice works, which are being erected at Stornoway, 

 are well advanced. 



Barra District. 



. There was a considerable increase, chiefly attributable to herrings, 

 in the quantity and value of fish landed. In the early summer poor 

 results were obtained at herring fishing, although East Coast crews had 

 a very successful time for some weeks in the later part of the season, 

 when steam drifters had earnings of £1000 to £2300. Some local crews 

 who owned their own boats had a successful year's work, but boats 

 owmed by merchants and worked by hired crews did not pay. Twelve 

 herring curing stations were opened, and curers had a remunerative 

 season. 



Loch Broom District. 



On the northern sea board of this district great quantities of herrings 

 were caught, but as there are no railway facilities in the district they 

 were landed elsewhere. No regular herring fishing was conducted at 

 any of the creeks. Cod-net fishing at Gairloch was disappointing, but 

 line-fishing improved, and lobster fishing was successfully prosecuted. 

 For some years there has been no herring fishing in Loch Broom, and 

 the absence of herrings has led to the selling of a good number of the 

 better class boats. 



Loch Carron and Shje District. 



Kyle is the most important creek in this district, but at no time 

 either in summer or winter was there much of a fleet operating from it, 

 and such herrings as were landed were delivered chiefly by East Coast 

 crews, although during the year the number of visits was less than 

 usual, and there was a considerable reduction in the quantity and value 

 of herrings landed. Two kippering establishments were in use for both 

 the summer and winter seasons. 



Fort 'William District. 



The returns for the district show a considerable decrease in the 

 quantity and value of fish landed. Oban and Mallaig were very busy 

 centres during the war and for some time after the signing of the 

 Armistice, but they now appear to be falling back to their pre-war 

 position. Stormy weather hindered the winter herring fishing, while 

 the importation of Norwegian herrings caused a slump in prices, and 

 brought it to a premature close. In the summer herring fishing and 

 also in the line and lobster fishings landings were far less than in the 

 preceding year. 



Campbeltown District. 



An increased quantity of net and line-caught fish was landed in the 

 district, but the value was very little in excess of that of 1919. Some 

 of the district crews prosecuted the summer herring fishing successfully 

 at Mallaig, and in the last quarter of the year they also did well in 

 Lochfyne. During the spring a number of East Coast crews landed 

 good takes of great-line fish at Campbeltown. 



