lvi Eighth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
Shell fish 
landed. 
Total value of 
Sea fisheries. 
Gross total value of White Fish landed brought 
forward, 
Total values of Shell Fish landed — 
£1,454,175 0 0 
Oysters, .... 
. £1,453 
0 
0 
Mussels, .... 
. 11,677 
0 
0 
Clams, .... 
2,564 
0 
0 
Lobsters, .... 
. 24,449 
0 
0 
Crabs, .... 
. 13,397 
0 
0 
Other kinds of Shell Fish, . 
9,661 
0 
0 
Gross total value of Shell Fish landed, 
Gross Total Value of the Sea Fisheries of 
Scotland, exclusive of Salmon, for the 
year 1889, 
Ditto for the year 1888, 
Increase in year 1889 over 1888, 
63,201 0 0 
£1,517,376 0 0 
1,404,488 0 0 
£112,888 0 0 
Note. — An estimate of the value of the Salmon taken last year will be found 
in Part II. of this Report. It amounts to £221,560, making the grand 
total value of the Sea and Salmon Fisheries of Scotland for the year 1889, 
£1,738,936, 0s. Od. It should also be explained that there is spent in Scotland 
£400,000 in connection with the gross total value of the sea fisheries in curing 
fish, — that is, on wood, hoops, coopers' and women's wages, salt, &c. Hitherto 
this sum has been included in the total estimate of the fish landed. 
Quantity of Of the total quantity of herrings landed, as shown in the above 
fish cured. statement, 1,397,507 barrels were cured. Of the total catch of cod, 
229,622 cwts. were cured dried, and in pickle; of ling, 93,474 cwts. 
were cured dried ; of torsk, 9131 cwts.; and of saithe, 41,335 J cwts. 
Visit of In concluding this Beport, the Board desire to put on record that 
foTs^otiand vour Lordship having resolved to visit the North-West Coast of 
to Northwest Scotland in the course of last summer, with the view of personally 
Coast. inspecting the harbour works in operation, the sites for new 
harbours, and of considering the whole question of communications, 
railway, telegraphic, and otherwise, in the interest of the fisheries, 
directed that the Chairman of the Board and some of the other 
members should accompany you. 
Kepresen- The Board, at a special meeting held for the purpose, arranged 
Bolrd S ori f that ^ at Professor Ewart and Mr Anderson Smith, two of their number, 
occasion, should go along with the Chairman to represent them on the occa- 
sion. Your Lordship having arranged to get H.M.S. 'Enchan- 
tress/ whose accommodation was limited, to take yourself and 
party to the different places on the coast which you intended to 
inspect, proposed that the members of the Board should take 
the cruiser H.M.S. ' Jackal ' for their accommodation. This pro- 
posal was adopted, and they joined that vessel at Oban on 7th June, 
and accompanied the 1 Enchantress ' with your Lordship and party 
to the different places visited ; and it was gratifying to them to 
give you such information in the course of the inspection as their 
knowledge of the fisheries and the wants of the fishermen enabled 
them to do. 
