Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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These cases above mentioned are sufficient evidence of the great 
value of telegraphic extension to remote fishery districts, in pro- 
moting the development of the fishing industry, as well as being of 
service to the general community. 
In Appendix F, No. II., will be found a statement of the ex- Expenditure 
penditure for telegraphic extension during last year. extensi e o g n raphi< 
Boats and Vessels, and Persons, employed in connection 
with the Sea Fisheries. 
Table I. Appendix D, gives an account of the number of boats, 
decked and undecked, irrespective of the places to which they 
belong, employed in the herring fishery in Scotland, in the season 
of last year, in a selected week for each district ; with the 
number of fishermen and boys by whom they were manned ; of 
coopers, gutters, packers, and labourers employed at the said 
fishery in the week so selected ; and the total number of such 
fishermen and other persons so employed. 
The following table shows the number of boats, decked and 
undecked, and beam trawl vessels employed in the sea fisheries 
of Scotland ; the number of fishermen and boys by whom they 
were manned ; the number of fish-curers, coopers, and other persons 
employed, in the years 1888 and 1889 :— 
Fishing boats 
employed in 
herring fishery 
in a selected 
week. 
Boats and 
vessels, fisher- 
men, and other 
persons 
employed in 
1888 and 1889. 
Years. 
Fishing Boats 
and Beam 
Trawl Vessels. 
Fishermen 
and Boys. 
Fish- 
curers. 
Coopers. 
Other 
Persons 
(estimated). 
1888, . 
1889, . 
14,904 
14,714 
48,618 
47,943 
1,047 
1,071 
2,410 
2,665 
45,806 
48,178 
Increase in 1889, . 
Decrease in 1889, . 
190 
675 
24 
255 
2,372 
The amount of capital embarked last year in boats, beam trawl 
vessels, and nets, fell short of that of 1888, and of the preceding 
three years. The amount expended on lines, however, has been 
gradually increasing since 1884, which shows that fishermen are 
paying greater attention to line fishing than formerly. 
The particulars of this increase and of the decreases are given in Capital 
employed in 
1888 and 1889. 
the following table : — 
Years. 
Value (estimated). 
Boats and 
Beam Trawl 
Vessels. 
Nets. 
Lines. 
Total. 
1888, . 
1889, 
£837,718 
828,728 
£679,290 
647,879 
£126,472 
126,700 
£1,643,480 
1,603,307 
Increase in 1889, 
Decrease in 1889, . 
£8,990 
£31,411 
£228 
£40,173 
