of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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saithe, whiting, and turbot ; a slight decrease of haddock, ling, and skate, 
and a considerable decrease in halibut, flounders, and plaice. The value 
(including net-caught fish and shell-fish) was .£55,596 in 1889, and 
£59,383 in 1888. 
In the Montrose district the line fishermen in 1889 landed larger 
quantities of cod, ling, and turbot; somewhat diminished quantities of 
saithe and whiting, and much less halibut, haddock, flounders, and plaice. 
The amounts landed by beam-trawlers show an increase in cod, saithe, 
turbot, haddock, lemon soles, flounder, plaice, and skate, and a decrease 
in ling and whiting. The value of the fish landed by fishermen (inclusive 
of net-caught fish and shell-fish) was £80,550 in 1889 and £78,648 in 
1888. In 1889, beam-trawlers landed fish valued at £12,956, and in 
1888 at £9316 ; the increase being chiefly due to more fish being landed 
by trawlers at Dundee. 
In the Stonehaven district the only fish landed were landed by fisher- 
men. As compared with 1888 there was a slight increase in haddocks, 
turbot, and skate, a considerable increase in cod, ling, saithe, whiting, 
and halibut, and a considerable decrease in flounder and plaice. The 
value (including net-caught fish and shell-fish) in 1889 was £24,179, and 
in 1888 £28,699. 
In the Aberdeen district the fish landed by fishermen showed a slight 
increase in turbot, a considerable increase in cod, ling, saithe, and halibut, 
a slight decrease in whiting and skate, and a considerable decrease in 
haddock, flounder, and plaice. Beam-trawlers landed considerably more 
saithe, haddock, turbot, and lemon sole than in 1888, slightly less cod, 
ling, flounder, and plaice, and much less whiting. The value of the fish 
landed by fishermen (exclusive of net-caught fish and shell-fish) was 
£93,460 in 1889, and £90,908 in 1888. Beam-trawlers landed fish valued 
at £98,652 in 1889, and at £82,088 in 1888. 
The total quantity of fish landed by beam-trawlers and line fishermen 
along the whole East Coast, in 1889, was 1,338,734J cwts. as compared 
with 1,334,511 in 1888; or an increase of 4223J cwts. In 1889 the 
line fishermen landed l,lll,320f cwts. of fish, and the beam-trawlers 
227,413f cwts. In 1888 the figures were :—l,090,7713J landed by line 
fishermen, and 243,797f landed by beam- trawlers. Thus the line 
fishermen landed on the East Coast in 1889, 20,607 \ cwts. (or above 
1000 tons) more fish than they did in 1888, while the beam-trawlers 
landed 26,384 cwts. (or above 800 tons) less ttian they did in 1888. 
There is no definite information as to the number of beam- trawlers 
engaged — for English trawlers land large quantities of fish on the Scotch 
coast — but it appears from the statistics in Part I. that the number of 
fishing boats belonging to the East Coast was 155 less than in 1888. 
Of the gross amount landed in 1889, 1,224,268 cwts. consisted of 
round-fish (cod, haddock, whiting, &c), and 114,466 \ cwts. of flat-fish 
(turbot, plaice, lemon soles, &c). In 1888 the total amount of round- 
fish landed on the East Coast was 1,209,035 cwts., and of flat-fish 125,476 
cwts. Thus there was in 1889 an increase of 15,233 cwts. of round-fish, 
and a decrease of 11, 009 \ of flat-fish landed on the East Coast. Line 
fishermen landed a larger quantity of round-fish and a smaller quantity of 
flat-fish, and beam-trawlers landed a smaller amount of both round and 
flat-fish in 1889 than in 1888. 
When the amounts landed in the southern group of districts (from 
Aberdeen to Berwick, but exclusive of Aberdeen) are compared with the 
amounts landed in the northern group of districts in 1888 and 1889, the 
following results appear. Line fishermen landed a larger quantity of 
