CONTENTS. 
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General Statement ....... 
7 
1. lne Influence oi Beam-Trawlmg ..... 
8 
The Trawling Experiments of the 4 Garland ' . 
8 
special Fishery Statistics ...... 
10 
2. lne Distribution oi Immature Sea Fish and their Capture by 
Various Modes of Fishing ...... 
10 
3. Inquiries into the Food, Reproduction, and Migrations of the Food- 
Fishes ........ 
12 
4. Investigations into the Development of Food-Fishes and Molluscs. 
15 
5. Inquiries into Shore and Bait Fisheries .... 
16 
6. Physical Observations ...... 
19 
7. Scheme of Scientific Investigations for 1890-91 
20 
8. Contemporary Fishery Work ..... 
21 
SECTION A.— GENERAL INQUIRIES. 
I. Report on the Trawling Experiments of the 4 Garland/ and on the 
Statistics of East Coast Fisheries. — Part IV. (Plates I., II. 
and III.) 
22 
I. Introductory ....... 
22 
II. The Work of the < Garland ' 
23 
1. The Firth of Forth 
23 
2. St Andrews Bay ...... 
24 
3. Other East Coast Districts ..... 
25 
III. Special Statistics of Fish caught by Line Fishermen and Beam- 
Trawlers ....... 
26 
1. Relative Quantities of Fish taken by Line and by Beam- 
Trawl . . 
26 
2. Statistics showing the Quantities of Line caught Fish 
obtained from the Territorial Areas where Trawling is 
prohibited ...... 
28 
3. Buckhaven Haddock and Cod Line Fishing 
29 
4. The Proportion of Large and Small Fish captured by Beam- 
Trawlers and Line Fishermen .... 
30 
IV. Summary ..... 
31 
Table A. — Summary of Fish taken by the ' Garland ' on the 
East Coast in 1889 
33 
Table B. — Analysis of the ' Garland's ' Statistics 
38 
Table C. — Record of Observations made on Board the 'Garland ' 
on the East Coast ..... 
41 
Table D. — Buckhaven Haddock and Cod Line Fishing 
121 
Table E. — Showing Fish Landed by Net and Line Boats and 
by Steam Beam-Trawl Boats .... 
122 
Table F. — Showing the Quantities monthly of Large and Small 
Fish landed in the Leith and Aberdeen Districts by 
Beam Trawlers and Line Fishermen in 1889 
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