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which they were exported ; distinguishing the export to Ireland, 
to the Continent, and to places out of Europe; and distinguishing 
also herrings crown branded from herringi unbranded, and giving 
the quantity of herrings repacked. To this Table is appended a 
supplementary note, showing the ports or places to which the 
herrings exported to the Continent were shipped, and the total 
quantity exported to the Continent. 
No. VI. Appendix A, gives an abstract of the total quantity of Herrings 
white herrings cured, branded, and exported, year by year, in so landed and 
far as brought under the cognizance of the fishery officers from 1st exported, 1875 
January 1875 to 31st December 1889; distinguishing the export to 1889 - 
to Ireland, to the Continent, and to places out of Europe. 
WINTER HERRING FISHERY. 
The Scottish winter herriug fishing of 1889 was not so successful as Winter 
in the preceding three years. The total quantity landed amounted ^ing g not so 
to 75,407 crans, against 79,756 crans in 1888, and 162,900 crans successful as 
in 1887. Of last year's catch, 51,614 crans were landed at eleven ^^ c y f^° 
districts on the East Coast, and 23,793 crans at six districts on 
the West Coast. The districts which show the largest returns Districts 
are, Anstruther, Wick, Leith, and Peterhead on the East Coast ; ^uTed™ 
and Ballantrae, Campbeltown, and Stornoway on the West Coast. 
Fluctuations are usually of more frequent occurrence in the winter Fluctuations 
than in the summer herring fishing. This, in a great measure, can in the nsnin s- 
be attributed during the winter of 1889 to the stormy state of the 
weather, which has an important bearing upon all the sea fisheries, 
and especially upon the herring fishery. The winter herrings of Quality and 
1889 were generally larger than those of former years — from 700P ric< r sof 
to 780, on an average, filling the cran. They had a remarkably iemngs ' 
bright colour, but, as usual, they were not so rich in flavour as 
the summer herrings. Prices ranged from 3s. to 30s. per cran, 
the average being about 12s. Comparatively few of the herrings How disposed 
landed in the winter of 1889 were cured for exportation, nearly of * 
the whole of them being used in this country either in a fresh 
state, lightly salted, or made into kippers or bloaters. 
Daylight and Sunday Fishing prohibited on West ("oast. 
By the fifth section of. the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Act, 1889, Regulations as 
it is enacted that it shall not be lawful to set or shoot any herring Jo close time 
. . J o tor herrings 
neb on any day between sunrise and one hour before sunset on any on West Coast. 
day between the first day of June and the first day of October, 
nor between sunrise on Saturday morning and one hour before 
sunset on Monday evening, on the W T est Coasts of Scotland between 
the Points of Ardnamurchan on the north and the Mull of Galloway 
on the south. 
It is further enacted that any person contravening the above sec- 
tion shall be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction 
(Scotland) Acts, to a fine not exceeding for the first offence five 
pounds, and for the second or any subsequent offence twenty 
pounds; and that every net set, or attempted to be set, in contraven- 
tion of this section shall be forfeited, and may be seized and destroyed 
