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Tenth Annual Beport of the 
West Coast 
fishing for 
fifty years 
preceding 
1891. 
In the fifty years preceding 1891, on the average of each period 
of ten years, the returns of herrings cured on the West Coast 
exhibit (except during the period from 1871 to 1880) a large con- 
tinuous increase, the particulars being as follow : — 
Yearly average 
of barrels 
cured in 
periods of 
ten years. 
Periods of Ten Years. 
1841 to 1850 inclusive, 
1851 „ 1860 
1861 „ 1870 
1871 „ 1880 
1881 „ 1890 
Yearly Average of 
Barrels Cured. 
67,682f 
91,698£ 
183,033J 
146,9741 
225,276 
Barrels cured in 1891, 267,426. 
increase in The quantity of herrings cured in 1891, when compared with 
an^on^^era^e tbat for 1890 ' snows aQ increase of 47*5 per cent. ; when compared 
for preceding 3 with the average for the preceding ten years, an increase of 18*71 
fifty years. p er cent> . f or twenty-five years, an increase of 39*82 per cent.; and 
for fifty years, of 87*09 per cent. 
III. Both Coasts. 
Quantity of 
herrings 
cured iu each 
of the twenty- 
six districts. 
Total quantity 
cured. 
Decrease in 
1891 as com- 
pared with 
1890 but an 
increase on the 
average for the 
preceding fifty 
years. 
Yearly average 
increase in 
periods of ten 
years. 
Appendix A., No. I., shows the total quantities of all the herrings 
cured in 1890 and 1891 in . each of the twenty-six districts em- 
bracing the whole coasts of Scotland, with the respective increases 
or decreases in the latter year. 
The total quantity of herrings cured in 1891, in the twenty-six 
districts, was 1,126,072 barrels. Of these, 45,613 barrels were 
cured on board vessels ; while of the 1,080,459 barrels cured on 
shore, 971,815 barrels were cured gutted, and 16,237 barrels un- 
gutted ; 76,824 barrels were kippered, 3,646 barrels prepared as 
bloaters or red herrings, and 11,937 barrels preserved in tins. 
These figures show a total decrease, when compared with those for 
1890, of 178,531 barrels ; but the returns for the fifty years pre- 
ceding last year, on the average for each period of ten years, show a 
continuous large increase, regarding which particulars will be found 
in the following tabular statement:— 
Period of Ten Years. 
Average Number 
of Barrels Cured 
Yearly in each 
Period. 
Increases in 
Average Number 
of Barrels Cured 
Yearly in each 
Period. 
Increases per cent. 
in Average 
Number of Barrels 
Cured Yearly in 
each Period. 
1841 to 1850 inclusive, 
1851 „ 1860 
1861 1870 
1871 ,, 1880 
1881 ,, 1890 
552,933 
601,270! 
686,360 
914,919 
1,337,020 
48,3374 
85,089£ 
228,559 
422,101 
8-74 
14-15 
33-3 
46-35 
Barrels Cured in 1891, . 1,126,072. 
