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crew with £220, and the Cromarty crews with £203, while the 

 Findhorn crews with average earnings of only £59 were the least 

 successful. 



Fisheries of the Port of Aberdeen . 



In view of the fact that the returns for each district are now 

 given in a much more detailed form than in preceding years, it 

 is considered that the special article on the Aberdeen district 

 fisheries need not be repeated every year and that it will be 

 sufficient if it is published every five years. 



FISH IMPORTED. 



incrSsein le From a return kindly furnished by H.M. Customs it appears 

 I906? ase n that in 1906 the total quantity of fresh fish imported into 

 Scotland (exclusive of shell-fish) was 121,866 cwts., valued at 

 £34,551, as compared with 48,613 cwts. and £13,885 in the 

 preceding year. Between one-seventieth and one-eightieth of the 

 imports of fresh fish consisted of herrings (Norwegian), while 

 the great bulk of the remainder consisted of fish landed from 

 Icelandic and other distant fishing grounds by foreign trawlers. 



The imports of shell-fish were valued at £1076, of which about 

 one-sixth consisted of oysters for use as food, and the remainder 

 chiefly of Dutch mussels landed at Leith for purposes of bait. 



FISH USED FRESH. 



Total Fish 

 Used Fresh. 



Proportion uf 

 Fish Landed. 



Aggregate 

 Value. 



Average Price 

 per cwt. 



During the year under review 2,091,168 cwts. of fish (exclusive 

 of shell-fish) were sold for use in a fresh state or consumed fresh in 

 the localities where landed, an excess of 260,086 cwts., or 14 per 

 cent, on the return for 1905. This quantity represents 28 per 

 cent, of the quantity landed, compared with 23 per cent, in the 

 preceding year, and an average of 31 per cent, in 1900-4. 



The value of the fish placed on the fresh markets was assessed 

 at £1,031,597, or £153,387 (equal to 17 per cent.) over the 

 assessment for 1905. This amount is equivalent to 35 per cent, of 

 the value of the fish landed, contrasted with 33 per cent, in the 

 preceding year, and an average of 41 per cent, in the years 1900-4. 



The assessed value equals 9s. lOd. per cwt., or 3d. per cwt. more 

 than in 1905, and 4d. per cwt. in excess of the average price for 

 the preceding five years. 



Contributions 

 to Supplies — 

 Coasts and 

 Districts- 

 Quantity. 



Value. 



Contributions to Fresh Fish Supplies, 



Of the total quantity of fish placed on the fresh markets, the 

 East Coast furnished 79 per cent., Orkney and Shetland 2 per 

 cent., and the West Coast 19 per cent. ; while the more notable of 

 the district contributions were made, in the order given, by 

 Aberdeen, Leith, Anstruther, Montrose, and Stornoway. 



The aggregate value of the fresh fish supplies was contributed by 

 the three geographical divisions in the respective proportions of 85, 



