xii Part I. — Twenty- fifth Annual Report 



Year. 



Trawl 



(including Steam and 

 Sailing Trawlers). 



Line. 



Total. 





Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



1898 



783,000 



1,050,000 



1,833,000 



1899 



983,000 



939,000 



1,922,000 



1900 



1,077,000 



757,000 



1,834,000 



1901 



1,328,000 



696,000 



2,019,000 



1902 



1,467,000 



608,700 



2,075,000 



1903 



1,566,000 



602,600 



2,168,600 



1904 



1,705,600 



753,700 



2,459,300 



1905 



1,745.431 



735,654 



2,481,085 



1906 



1,870,517 



688,057 



2,558,574 



This Table shows the tendency which we have frequently reported, 

 namely, the passing of the larger proportion of the white-fish fishing 

 from the line fishermen into the hands of the trawler. 



Persons Employed. 



The number of persons employed in the fisheries of Scotland and 

 the various industries subsidiary thereto in the year 1906 was 

 92,305. Of these, 38,856 manned the fishing fleet, and the 

 remainder were engaged in the operations connected with the 

 fishing industry on shore. 



Comparative Value of Nets and Lines, and of Line and 

 Trawl-Caught Fish. 



Two charts accompany this Eeport. One of these traces, since 

 1893, the movements in the annual values of great lines employed 

 on board East Coast sailing boats and steam vessels, and, since 

 1899, those of drift netting used on board of East Coast steam 

 vessels ; while the other shows, for the former period, the annual 

 prices per cwt. of each of the three more important species of 

 round fish, viz. : — haddocks, cod, and ling, taken by line and by 

 trawl. Over the period brought under review, the following 

 represent the average line prices: — haddocks 10s. 4d., cod 8s., and 

 ling 6s. 3d. ; while the corresponding average trawl prices were 

 10s. 7d., 8s. 6d., and 6s. Id. 



