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return with a total of 104,795 barrels. Those districts which 
exhibited the largest decreases were Wick, Aberdeen, Buckie, 
Feterhaad, Anstruther, Fraserburgh, Findhorn, and Eyemouth. 
The returns of herrings cured on the whole of the East Coast East Coast 
of Scotland in the fifty years preceding 1890, on the average of years ^)reced-^ 
each period of ten years, show a continuous large increase. ing 1890. 
The particulars are as follow : — 
Periods of Ten Years. Yearly Average of Yearly average 
Barrels cured. etredlf 
1840 to 1849 inclusive, 473,640J periods of ten 
1850 „ 1859 „ 499,650 
1860 „ 1869 „ 506,321 
1870 „ 1879 „ 708,546 
1880 „ 1889 „ 1,119,5231 
Barrels cured in 1890, 1,123,347J 
The quantity of herrings cured in 1890, when compared with ^g^^^®^^^^^^ 
1889, shows a decrease of 5-11 per cent.; when compared with the i889,"but^^ 
average of the preceding ten years, an increase of '34 per cent; of increase over 
twenty-five years, 35-94 per cent.; and of fifty years, 69*8 per p^^^gg^^ 
cent. fifty years. 
II. West Coast. 
The returns of the herring fishery on the West Coast of Scotland Total decrease 
(exclusive of herrings sprinkled or slightly salted) show that the cireTou^est 
total quantity of herrings cured in 1890 was 181,295 J barrels, as Coast, 
compared with 213,650 barrels in the previous year, being a 
decrease of 32,354^ barrels. The districts of Stornoway, Fort Four districts 
William, Loch Carron and Skye, and Rothesay, show a collective cr^ase^and foiir 
increase of 48,151J barrels over the preceding year, of which a decrease. 
Stornoway contributed the greatest proportion. On the other hand, 
the districts of Campbeltown, Inveraray, Ballantrae, and Loch 
Broom, exhibit a collective decrease of 80,506 barrels, the largest 
falling off being in the districts of Campbeltown and Inveraray, 
of 41,113, and 30,088 barrels respectively. During the last 
five years herrings have not been cured in Greenock district, and 
comparatively few last year in Rothesay, Inveraray, and Campbel- 
town districts, — the great balk of those landed having been 
despatched to the home markets, either in a fresh or slightly salted 
state for immediate use. Occasionally large quantities of these 
fresh herrings were made into kippers. On the West Coast shoals General view 
were found last year in greatest abundance in the districts of of fishing. 
Stornoway, Loch Carron and Skye, Campbeltown, and Inveraray. 
Large catches of excellent herrings were got in Loch Fyne, Kil- 
brennan Sound, and Lochindail in Islay, as in the previous year. 
An abundant fishing was also got in North Minch, Loch Hourn, 
Sound of Sleat, and some of the sea lochs in Skye. 
The returns of herrings cured on the whole of the West Coast of West Coast 
Scotland in the fifty years preceding la.st year, on the average of ^^'""^.^^ 
each period of ten years, exhibit, with the exception of the period yelrs!"'^ 
