xxvi 
Ninth Annual Report of the 
Regulations 
printed and 
circulated. 
Cran and 
quarter-cran 
only legal 
measures for 
sale or delivery 
of fresh 
herrings. 
These 
measures now 
in general use 
and giving 
satisfaction, 
Basket 
measures 
examined and 
"branded. 
Box measures 
examined and 
branded. 
The regulations have been printed and circulated for the infor- 
mation ol: the fishing trade. A copy of them forms Appendix A, 
No. VIII. to this Eepart, and they may be had on application to 
any of the Board's fishery officers. A basket and a box measure 
made and crown branded according thereto may be seen at the 
assistant inspector's office in Leith, or at any of the district fishery 
offices of the Board, and measures may be presented for the purpose 
of being crown branded at such time and place as may be arranged 
by the fishery officer of the district. 
The measure known as the cran may also be used for buying, 
selling, delivering, or receiving fresh herrings; but any person 
using any measure other than this, or the basket or box measure 
aforesaid, shall be liable, on conviction under the Summary Juris- 
diction (Scotland) Acts, to a fine not exceeding five pounds for the 
first offence, and not exceeding twenty pounds for the second or 
any subsequent offence ; and also to the forfeiture of the measure 
or measures, which may be seized and destroyed or otherwise 
disposed of by any superintendent of the herring fishery or other 
officar employed in the execution of the Herring Fishery (Scotland) 
Acts ; provided always that nothing shall prevent the sale of 
herrings by weight or number or in bulk. 
The basket and box quarter cran measures, made and branded 
under the regulations, were in general use last year along the 
Coasts of Scotland ; and the Board are much gratified to learn that 
they gave general satisfaction to those interested in the herring 
industry, and remedied a very great grievance. It is interesting to 
note that these measures were also in use in the English stations along 
the Coast of Northumberland, where they gave great satisfaction. 
The total number of basket measures examined last year by the 
fishery officers, and found to have been constructed according to 
the Board's regulations, and branded, was 24,797. These baskets 
were branded in ten different districts, the chief of which were 
Leith, Aberdeen, Greenock, Montrose, Peterhead, and Wick. 
Of box measures, the number examined by the officers, and 
found to have been constructed according to the Board's regula- 
tions, and branded, was 3,400, of which 2,048 were branded at 
Greenock, and 1,352 at Ballantrae. No box measures were branded 
at any of the other districts. 
COD, LING, AND HAKE FISHERY. 
CuEED Fish. 
Cod, ling, and The cod, ling, and hake fishery of Scotland was prosecuted last 
hake fishery, year With a fair degree of success. Although the yield was slightly 
Quant^y o^f^^ under that of 1889, it was considerably above the average of the 
hakeianckdin Preceding six years. The gross quantity landed amounted to 
Scotland in 749,130 cwts., agaiust 734,099 cwts. in 1889, or an increase of 
. 15,031 cwts. Beam-trawl vessels accounted for 32,989 cwts. of the 
quantity of ^^^^^ quantity landed, being an increase of 5,945 cwts. over the 
cod taken. retums for 1889. 
