Fishery Board for Scotland — Statisti-cal Tables. 37 



No. IT. — continued. 



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Quantity and Value of Fish Landed. 





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 33 



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Methods 



of 

 Fishing 

 pursued. 



Position of 

 Principal 

 Fishing 

 Grounds. 



Herrings. 



Other kinds 

 (excluding 

 Shell Fish). 



Value 



of 

 Shell 

 Fish. 



Principal 

 kinds of Fish 

 Landed. 



No. of Curing S 



General Remarks. 



t 





Cwts. 



£ 



Cwfs. 



£ 



£ 









Lines and 

 creels. 



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P e n 1 1 a n d 

 Firth and 

 inshore. 



Inshore. 



1 



J ' 





464 

 317 



590 

 452 



370 

 1,383 



Cod and lob- 

 sters. 





Crofter fishermen. Decrease of 

 52 per cent, in quantity and 70 

 per cent, in value of line fish 

 landed. 



Fisheries unimportant. 

 Do. 



Crofter fishermen. Line fisheries 

 unremunerative. Great increase 

 in value of shell fish. 







91.728 



61,793 



7,660 



10,294 



10 090 





29 





Lines. 

 Nets and 

 lines. 



>> 



\pr< an A 



.1 Clc evil 11 



lines. 



Inshore, 

 lto 60 miles 

 off. 



Inshore, 

 l to 70 miles 

 off. 



i iu miic ^ 

 off. 



1 



1 10,755 



} ■ 



} 296716 

 | 832 



6,920 

 218,019 



556 



790 

 996 



74 



17,082 

 2,224 



450 

 784- 



45 

 14,253 



2,293 



235 



Cod, ling, tusk, 

 saithe, had- 

 docks, halibut, 

 and skate. 



Herrings, cod, 

 ling, saithe 

 and haddocks. 



Saithe and 

 haddocks. 



Herrings, mac- 

 kerel, cod, ling, 

 tusk, saithe, 

 haddocks, 

 whitings, 

 halibut, and 

 skate. 



Herrings, had- 

 docks, and 

 halibut. 



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 X 



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} Decrease of 876 cwts. and £1234 in 

 I value compared with 1919 re- 

 l salts. Long fish were scarcer 

 j than usual on the grounds 

 J during the season when great 

 ' line fishing is carried on. 

 Majority of the fishermen em- 

 ployed at herring fishing at 

 Lerwick. 

 1 Two curing stations were open at 

 j Hoswick and one at Levenwick, 

 and more of the district boats 

 landed their catches of herrings 

 at the home port than in 1919. 

 This accounts for increases of 

 7838 cwts. and £6397, the in- 

 creases on herrings alone being 

 7069 cwts. and £5857. 

 1 Crofting district. Very little fish - 

 i" ing carried on in 1920 from the 

 locality, but fishermen took part 

 in the summer herring fishing at 

 Lerwick. 



\ Decrease of 19S.393 cwts. in quan- 

 / tity landed, but increase of 

 £12,366 in Talue. Herrings alone 

 show decrease of 194,631 cwts., 

 but increase of £26,392 in value. 

 White fish show decreases of 

 3789 cwts. and £13,970. The 

 high price paid for herrings 

 under the Government Guaran- 

 tee Scheme accounts for increase 

 in value over 1919, when a large 

 part of the catch was sold at a 

 low figure. There was a con- 

 siderable drop in the prices 

 realised for all kinds of white 

 fish compared with 1919. 

 "j As showing the drop in the value 

 1 of haddocks compared with 

 f 1919, an increase of 422 cwts. 

 J at Whalsay and Skerries shows 

 a decrease of £1564 in the value 

 realised by the fishermen. The 

 herring curing station at Whal- 

 say was not opened till late in 

 the summer season, which ac- 

 counts for the catch of herrings 

 being 7827 cwts. less than the 

 1919 landings. The total decrease 

 in value in this section is £3597. 



