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Part L — Twenty -fifth Annual Report 



the trade with places out of Europe is increasing annually. The 

 figures for the last five years are as follow : — 



1902, - - 2717 cwts. 



1903, - - 3128 



1904, - - 3475 „ 



1905, - - 4748 „ 



1906, - - 11,137 „ 



Markets for The pickling of cod, on the other hand, is a decaying industry. 

 Pickled Cod j jSlS ^ y ear on \y 335 barrels of cod preserved in this way were 

 exported, and these came from the districts of Aberdeen and Wick 

 to Leith en route for Holland. 



The export of cured mackerel is also slightly under the figures 

 for 1905, the returns being 1394 and 1430 barrels respectively. 

 Almost the whole of these came from Barra and were shipped from 

 Glasgow for the United States, where they met with a ready sale. 



PEESONS ENGAGED IN SCOTTISH SEA FISHEBIES 

 AND ALLIED INDUSTEIES. 



During the year, 92,305 persons were employed in connection 

 with the various branches of the Scottish sea fisheries, being 5 per 

 cent, more than in 1905. 



Of this number, 42 per cent, consisted of resident and non- 

 resident fishermen and boys (of whom there were 2698 more than 

 in the preceding year), 19 per cent, was composed of gutters and 

 packers (whose number exceeded that of 1905 by 92), 10 per cent, 

 was made up of persons of British nationality employed on board 

 of vessels in curing, exporting, and carrying herrings and other 

 fish (in the case of whom there was the largest increase — amounting 

 to 1151 — on the figures for 1905), persons of foreign nationality 

 similarly employed (who were less numerous by 903 than in the 

 preceding year) represented 5 per cent., and carters and labourers 

 (of whom there were 104 more than in 1905) contributed 4 per 

 cent. The remaining units, the mere enumeration of which will 

 show the variety of the industries associated with that of sea 

 fishing, embraced, in • lesser proportions and in the order given, 

 hawkers of herrings and other fish, boatbuilders, coopers, persons 

 of British nationality employed on board of vessels in importing 

 salt, stave wood, and hoops, fishmongers, makers and menders of 

 nets, persons of foreign nationality employed similarly to those of 

 British nationality, fish cure is and dealers in fresh fish, clerks, box- 

 makers, and persons employed in manufacturing barrel staves. 



BOAT-BUILDING. 



Total Output. During the year there were launched from the boat and ship 

 building yards of Scotland 307 fishing boats and vessels, of the 

 aggregate value of £636,311, these figures showing excesses over 

 the returns for the preceding year of 38 and 203 per cent, 

 respectively. 



Composition. Of the gross output, 50 consisted of steam vessels, of the total 

 value of £131,300, intended for employment in drift-net fishing for 

 herrings or in long line fishing for white fish; 176 were sailing 

 boats, of the aggregate value of £16,391, constructed for use in 



Increased 

 Returns. 



Analysis. 



