Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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MARINE POLICE AND FISHERY SUPERINTENDENCE. 
This superintendence was conducted in the same manner as in 
former years, and the regulations in regard to the lettering and 
numbering of fishing boats have been generally well observed by 
the fishermen. The returns show that the number of boats and Number of 
vessels detained during the year for non-observance of these regula- boats detained - 
tions was 598, being an increase of 284 over the former year. 
The proceedings in connection with the registration of fishing Registration of 
boats during last year were as follow : — The number of applications boats - 
made to the fishery officers for certificates of registry was 526, the Certificates 
number of registers issued was 536, and the number of registers ined^and™" ' 
examined and indorsed was 5400. endorsed. 
In Appendix D, Table VII., will be found particulars, classified Detailed par- 
by districts, of these applications to register ; of the registers issued, ticulaisthtil ' eof - 
examined, and indorsed ; and of the boats detained for non-compli- 
ance with the Fishery Acts, by the fishery officers and cruisers 
under the Board. 
The vessels employed in carrying on the superintendence of the Vessels 
fisheries during last year were H.M.S. 'Jackal/ commanded by ^"^ctfn^the 
Lieut. A. M. Farquhar, who was succeeded in the command by fisheries.* 
Lieut. Augustus L. K. Knapton ; the Board's cruiser ' Vigilant/ 
commanded by Mr Alexander M'Donald ; and H.M. cutter ' Daisy,' 
commanded by Mr George Hogg, who was succeeded by Mr 
Clement Roach. These vessels were supplemented, during the 
great summer herring fishery on the East Coast, by H.M. gun-boat 
' Firm/ Lieut. W. H. Somerset in command, and by H.M. cutter 
' Eagle,' Mr J. F. Tremayne in command, which were placed at the 
disposal of the Board by the Admiral Superintendent of Naval 
Reserves. The services of these vessels during the year were as 
follow : — 
H.M.S. 'Jackal ' was engaged in the early part of the year upon Services of 
the East Coast — her head-quarters being at Granton — in the <Jacka1 -' 
general superintendence of the fisheries, and in protecting the closed 
territorial waters against the encroachments of beam trawlers. 
She then proceeded, after her annual refit at Devonport, to Barra 
in the Hebrides, for fishery superintendence there. She afterwards 
proceeded to Oban, where the Chairman of the Board, Professor 
Ewart and Mr Anderson Smith, two other of its members, joined 
her and accompanied your Lordship and party in the 'Enchantress/ 
to the North West Coast of Scotland, with the view of your Lord- 
ship personally inspecting the harbour works in operation, the 
sites suggested for new harbours, and of considering the whole 
question of communications, — railway, telegraphic, and otherwise 
in the interest of the fisheries. The 'Jackal' thereafter returned to 
the East Coast for the great summer herring fishery, taking up 
station at Wick, and carrying on the superintendence from Rrxttray 
Head on the south, including the whole of the Moray Firth, to and 
including the southern part of the Orkney Islands. At tne close 
of the fishing she returned to Granton for general superintendence 
on the East Coast . Her principal duty there consisted in protect- 
ing the territorial waters from the encroachments of beam trawlers. 
