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Appendices to Eighth Annual Report 
APPENDIX C— No. III. 
TOTAL QUANTITY OF FISH LANDED. — Details, takea from 
the reports of the inspectors and district fishery officers, of the 
total quantity and value of the different kinds of white and 
shell fish landed in Scotland, in the year 1889. 
I. Different Kinds of White Fish. 
The white fisheries of Scotland are most productive on the East 
Coast, owing, in a large measure, to the greater facilities there for 
despatching fish to market for use fresh, and to the fact that. the 
fishermen on that coast devote the whole of their time to the 
prosecution of the fishing industry. 
Beam-trawling continues to be prosecuted with much energy in 
the Scottish fisheries. The number of vessels engaged in that 
mode of fishing last year belonging to Scotland was 110, or an 
increase of 3 over 1888. These were valued at £111,174, and 
the trawl-nets at £6204, giving £117,378 as the total amount 
invested in vessels and material. They fished principally from the 
districts of Leith, Montrose, and Aberdeen on the East Coast, and 
Campbeltown, Eothesay, Greenock, and Ballantrae on the West 
Coast. Besides the Scottish vessels, there was a large fleet of 
English trawlers fishing off both the East and West Coasts. Ex- 
ceptionally large quantities of flounders and other flat-fish were 
taken off the Orkney Islands, and in the Fentlaud Firth. The 
gross quantity of all kinds of trawled fish landed in Scotland 
during 1889 was 252,524J cwts., valued at £158,306. They con- 
sisted of cod, ling, saithe, haddock, whiting, turbot, halibut, sole, 
flounder, plaice, brill, eel, skate, and other varieties of white fish. 
A statement, by districts, of the total quantity and value of the 
different kinds of white fish taken by beam-trawl vessels, and 
landed in Scotland, will be found in Appendix C, No. it. 
The total quantity of all the different kinds of white fish landed 
in Scotland in 1889, amounted to 5,589,239 cwts., valued at 
£1,454,175, and the value of shell fish, £63,201, giving £1,517,376 
as the gross value of both white and shell fish. 01' the catch of 
white fish 4,200,687 cwts. were landed on the East . Coast, 
480,0701 cwts. in Orkney and Shetland, and 908,481J cwts. on 
the West Coast. The total catch of white fish in 1888 was 
4,633,5561 cwts., valued at £1,332,760, and the shell fish landed 
was valued at £71,728, giving a gross value of both fisheries as 
£1.404,488, or an increase of 955,082| cwts. in quantity, and 
£121,415 in value of white fish, but a decrease in the value of 
shell fish to the extent of £8527. There was thus a net increase 
in value of fish landed in 1889, of £112,888. 
Some particulars follow of the total quantity and value (to the 
fishermen) of the principal kinds of white fish landed. 
Herring, — The total quantity of herrings landed in Scotland last 
year, was 1,062,430 crans, valued at £716,445, or an increase of 
279,181 crans, and £165,419 over 1888. s The average price obtained 
was 13s. 6d. per cran, or 3s. lOd. per cwt., against 14s. Id. and 4s. re- 
spectively in 1888. The East Coast yielded 814,550 crans, Orkney 
