liv Ninth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
total value of the Sea and Salmon Fisheries of Scotland for the year 1890 
£1,9(X),199. It sliould also be explained that there is spent in Scotland 
an amount estimated at <£400,00() in curing fish, — that is, on wood, hoops, 
coopers' and women's wa^];es, salt, &c. ; this sum being included in the esti- 
mated gross total value of the sea fisheries of Scotland given in the Board's 
Reports previous to 1889. 
Of the total quantity of herrings landed, as shown in the above 
statement, 1,304,603 barrels were cured. Of the total catch of cod, 
C8,891 cwts. were cured dried, and in pickle; of ling, 137,373 cwts. 
were cured dried ; of torsk, 6,070 cwts.; and of saithe, 90,571 cwts. 
