CONTENTS. 



i'AOE 



General Statement ..... 7 



The Hatching and Rearing of Food-Fishes ...... 8 



The Influence of Beam-Trawling . . . . .11 



Seine-Net Fishing for Herrings at Ballantrae Bank . . 13 



Scottish Mackerel Fishing . . . . . .13 



The Influence of Marine Currents in Transporting Floating Eggs 



and Larvie from Offshore Spawning Areas . . . Ui 



The Capture of Immature Fish by Hook . . . .14 



The Life-Histories and Development of the Food Fishes . . 14 



The Fauna of the Firth of Forth, and of Inland Waters . . 15 



Physical Investigations . . . . . .15 



Contemporary Fishery Work . . . . 1<> 



SECTION A. — GENERAL REPORTS. 



I. Report on the Trawling Experiments of the 'Garland,' and on 

 the Statistics of the East Coast Fisheries relating thereto. 

 —Part IX. 17 



i. Introductory . . . . . . .17 



ii. The Trawling Experiments of the ' Garland' . . .18 



1. The Firth of Forth . . . . . 1 8 



2. St Andrews Bay . . . . . .11) 



3. The Moray Firth . . . . 2< I 



4. The Firth of Clyde -21 



iii. Special Statistics of Fish caught by Line Fishermen . . 21 



1. Statistics showing the Quantities of Line-caught Yhh 



obtained from Territorial Waters . . .21 



2. Buckhaven Haddock and Cod Line Fishing . . 23 



3. Statistics showing the Quantities of Fish caught by Line 



Fishermen within the Moray Firth . - , .23 



