ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TO THE EIGHT HONOURABLE 



SIR GEORGE 0. TREVELYAN, Bart., 



Her Majesty's Secretary for Scotland. 



Office of The Fishery Board 

 for Scotland, 



Edinburgh, Is* June 1893. 



Sir, 



In continuation of our Eleventh Annual Eeport, we 

 have the honour to submit — 



PART III— SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS. 



GENERAL STATEMENT. 



This part of the Eleventh Annual Report deals with the 

 Scientific Investigations carried on by the Board in 1892, in 

 connection with the sea and other fisheries. An account is also 

 given of the scientific fishery work, and the fishery regulations in 

 other countries possessing sea fisheries, and of the principal 

 means being taken to protect and develop them. 



The scientific work has been carried out and the scientific 

 report prepared under the supervision of Dr T. Wemyss Fulton, 

 F.R.S.E., the Superintendent of Scientific Investigations. 



In the course of 1892 the various investigations were pro- 

 secuted on the same lines as in previous years, and have resulted 

 in further extensions of knowledge of the life-histories and habits 

 of the food fishes, so far as these relate to fishery questions. A 

 large part of the inquiries, both biological and physical, have been 

 made by means of the ' Garland,' the small steam-vessel belonging 

 to the Board ; but, as has been frequently pointed out, the small 

 size and unseaworthiness of this vessel have considerably curtailed 

 the extent and usefulness of the investigations. The ' Garland,' 

 which was bought by the Board in 1886, was originally a pleasure 

 yacht. Its registered tonnage is only 36*4 tons, its length 84 feet 



7 inches between perpendiculars, its breadth 15 feet, and depth 



8 feet 5 inches. Although improvements have been made in her 

 from time to time, including the renewal of the boilers and pro- 



