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the four principal stations in one year is very unusual. The de- 
creases in the remaining seven districts were much smaller. 
The returns of herrings cured on the whole of the east coast of East Coast 
Scotland in the fifty years preceding 1891, on the average of each fishing of fifts 
u v • js o ' o years preced- 
period of ten years, show a continuous large increase up to last i ng 1891. 
year. 
The particulars are as follow : — 
Periods of Ten Years. 
1841 to 1850 inclusive, 
1851 „ 1860 
1861 „ 1870 
1871 „ 1880 
1881 „ 1890 
Yearly Average of 
Barrels cured. 
477,3661 
507,376J 
514,304f 
767,9441 
1,111,744 
Yearly average 
of barrels 
cured in 
periods of ten 
years. 
Barrels cured in 1891, 858,646 
II. West Coast. 
The returns for the west coast show that the total quantity of Total increase 
herrings cured there in 1891 (exclusive of those sprinkled or curedon 8 West 
slightly salted) was 267,426 barrels, as compared with 181,295^ Coast 
barrels in 1890. The large increase which these figures exhibit is 
accounted for by the takes in the districts of Stornoway, Loch Six districts 
Broom, Loch Carron and Skye, Campbeltown, Inveraray, and c^aL^nd two 
Eothesay, which show a total increase of 88,354J barrels ; while in a decrease, 
only two districts is there a decrease, — amounting to 2,224 barrels, 
— thus giving a net increase for the whole west coast of 86,130J 
barrels. Stornoway, as in the previous year, contributed the 
greater proportion (67,549 J barrels) of the increase; while there 
was also an increase of 12,592 barrels at Campbeltown, and of 
6,436 barrels at Loch Carron and Skye. No herrings have been 
cured at Greenock during the last six years, and comparatively few 
were cured last year at Ballantrae, Eothesay, or Inveraray, — the 
great bulk of the herrings caught at the Clyde stations being 
despatched to the home markets for immediate use, in a fresh or 
slightly salted condition. Occasionally, however, large quantities 
of these fresh herrings were prepared as kippers. Last year General view 
the shoals of herrings on the west coast were found in greatest of fishing, 
abundance in the districts of Stornoway, Loch Carron and Skye, 
Campbeltown, and Inveraray; and, as in 1890, large , catches of 
herrings of excellent quality were obtained in Loch Fyne, Kil- 
brennan Sound, Loch Gruinard in Islay, the sea lochs in Skye, 
Loch Seaforth in Lewis, Loch Hourn, and the North Minch. 
While the fishing was in progress, seven large steamers were steamers em- 
specially employed in carrying herrings from Stornoway to Scottish j^^^Jp* 
and English ports for distribution throughout the country ; and a herrings 
large number of small swift steamers was similarly employed throughout the 
carrying herrings to market from the districts of Loch Carron and coun ry " 
Skye, Fort William, Campbeltown, and Inveraray. 
