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Eighth Annual Report of the 
Details of 
boats, vessels, 
&c., and 
capital 
employed. 
Details of 
beam trawl 
vessels. 
Tonnage of 
shipping and 
number of 
seamen 
engaged. 
The falling uDf during the last few years in the amount of capital 
invested in boats, vessels, and nets, is mainly accounted for by 
depreciation, loss of boats, and material, and by very few boats 
having been built, or nets manufactured, since 1884. 
Table II. Appendix D, shows the number and tonnage of boats, 
decked and undecked, and beam trawl vessels, employed in the 
herring and other sea fisheries of Scotland last year, with the 
districts to which they belong ; the number of fishermen and boys 
by whom they were manned ; the number cf fish-curers, coopers, 
and other persons employed ; with the estimated value of boats, 
beam trawl vessels, nets, and lines. 
Table III., Appendix D, shows the number and tonnage of beam 
trawl vessels and boats employed in the sea fisheries of Scotland 
last year; with the districts to which they belong; the number of 
fishermen and boys by whom manned ; distinguishing steam 
trawlers from sailing trawlers ; with the estimated value of the 
vessels, nets, and fishing material. 
Table IV. Appendix D, shows the tonnage of shipping, and of 
the number of seamen engaged in the trade of the herring and cod 
and ling fisheries of Scotland, last year — distinguishing those 
employed in importing stave wood, hoops, and salt; in carrying 
herrings or cod-fish coastwise, or exporting them abroad ; and dis- 
tinguishing British from foreign tonnage and men. 
The following table shows the total tonnage of boats and vessels, 
and the number of persons employed iu the herring, cod, and ling, 
and other sea fisheries of Scotland in 1889, as compared with 
1888 :— 
Tonnage of 
boats and 
vessels, and 
number of 
persons 
employed. 
Abstract 
returns of 
tonnage and 
persons 
employed. 
Number of 
boats and 
beam trawl 
vessels and 
resident 
fishermen in 
Scotland. 
Abstract. 
Total Tonnage of Boats and Vessels, and Number of 
Persons employed. 
British. 
f 
Foreign. 
Years. 
Tons. 
Persons. 
Tons. 
Persons. 
1888, 
1889, 
276,322^ 
279 369-/,- 
107,639 
109,757 
29,345 
43,113 
1,498 
2,101 
Increase in 1889, 
3,047 
2,118 
13,768 
603 
Table "V. Appendix D, gives abstract return of the tonnage of 
vessels and number of men ; the tonnage of boats and number of 
fishermen and boys ; and the number of other persons employed iu the 
herring, cod, and ling, and other sea fisheries of Scotland last year. 
Table VIII. Appendix D, is a return, by fishing villages or creeks, 
for the coasts of Scotland, of the number of first, second, and third 
class fishing boats, beam trawl ve3sels, and resident fishermen and 
boys, in the year 1889. It will be seen that in Table II. of 
Appendix D, the fishermen and boys returned are 7558 more than 
the above-mentioned number. This is, however, in consequence of 
that additional number, who were non-resident, having been em- 
