of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 91 



No. II. — continued. 





Methods of 

 Pishing Pursued 



Position of 

 Principal Fishing 

 Grounds. 



Quantity and Value of 

 Fish Landed 

 (excluding Shell Fish). 



Value of 

 Shell Fisl 

 Taken. 



Principal kinds 

 of Fish Landed. 



No. of Curing 

 Stations. 



General Remarks. 









Cwts. 





£ 





1 







Drift and seine 

 nets and lines. 



Kilbrannan Sound 

 and Loch Fyne. 



108 



SI 



9 



Haddocks. 



1 



Although the best crews 

 in the district belong to 

 Pirnmill the quantity of 

 fish landed annually is 

 very trifling. The crews 

 dispose of all their 

 catches of herrings at 





D v 1 f t n i"» t c 

 i ' i 1 i i u i. i a j 



lines, and lob- 

 ster creels. 



^ firwl F* pfin«f nf 



Arran. 



}■ 28,. "501 

 J 



9,555 



( 



148^ 



1 



Herrings, iyiacIy* 

 1 erel, codling, 

 haddocks, and 

 shell-fish. 



V 



'v 



of herrings credited to 

 these creeks is probably 

 the largest ever recorded. 

 Herrings were abundant 

 in the waters off the 

 east of Arran in the 

 autumn. The other 

 branches of the industry 

 received meagre atten- 

 tion. 









54,274 



17,727 



680 





6 







Nets and lines. 



Gareloch. 



0,825 



2,336 



51 



Herrings and 

 whitings 





Fair herring fishing got 

 in the loch in latter end 

 of the year. 





,, 



Off Helensburgh. 



550 



412 



446 



Haddock s, 

 whitings, and 

 plaice. 





Fishing not of much im- 

 portance. 





Lines. 













it 



Two trawlers landed her- 

 rings caught by trawl 

 taken from off the Irish 

 coast. 





Nets and lines. 



Clyde estuary. 



32 



7 



607 



Mussels. 



2 

 1 



Large increase in mussels. 





Beam trawls. 





2 ,738 



989 



846 



Herrings, plaice, 

 and mussels. 



3 



Decrease in plaice. 





Nets and lines. 



» 



122 



102 





Codlings and 

 saithe. 





Slight decrease of fish 

 landed. 









477 



450 





Codlings, whit- 

 ings, saithe, 

 and plaice. 





Little fishing carried on. 





Trawls, nets 

 and lines. 





3,493 



1,584 





Herrings, cod, 

 haddocks, 

 whitings, 

 plaice, and 

 mackerel. 





Good increase in herrings 





Nets and lines. 





1,305 



704 





Herrings, cod, 

 mackerel and 

 plaice 





Increase in herrings, 

 slight decrease in white 

 fish. 





Lines. 





1S4 



107 



59 



Herrings, whit- 

 ings, and 

 plaice. 







fishing from Rothesay, all of which were engaged in trawling. 

 Total tonnage of vessels, 25 tons ; total value of vessels and gear, 



£180. 



