CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
General Statement ....... 3 
1. The Influence of Beam Trawling ..... 6 
The Trawling Experiments of the ' Garland ' . . .6 
Special Fishery Statistics ...... 7 
2. The Capture and Destruction of Immature Fish ... 9 
3. The East Coast Fishing Grounds . . . . .11 
4. Inquiries into the Food, Reproduction, &c., of the Food Fishes . 11 
5. Investigations into the Development of the Food and other Fishes 14 
6. Inquiries into the Shore Fisheries . . . . .15 
7. Physical Observations . . . . . .18 
8. Scheme of Scientific Investigations for 1891-92 . . .18 
9. Contemporary Fishery Work . . . . .19 
SECTION A.— GENERAL INQUIRIES. 
I. Report on the Trawling Experiments of the ' Garland,' and on the 
Statistics of East Coast Fisheries. — Part V. By Dr T. 
Wemyss Fulton, F.R.S.E., Secretary for Scientific Investiga 
tions. (Plates I., II.) . . . . . .21 
I. Introductory . . . . . . .21 
II. The Work of the 'Garland' . . . . . 22 
1. The Firth of Forth . . . . . . 22 
2. St Andrews Bay ...... 23 
3. Other East Coast Districts ..... 24 
4. The Firth of Clyde ...... 24 
III. Special Statistics of Fish caught by Line Fishermen and Beam- 
Trawlers ....... 24 
1 . Relative Quantities of Fish taken by Line and by Beani-Trawl 24 
2. Statistics showing the Quantities of Line caught Fish 
obtained from the Territorial Areas where Trawling is 
prohibited .... . . 27 
3. Buckhaven Haddock and Cod Line Fishing . . 28 
4. The Proportion of Large and Small Fish captured by Beam- 
Trawlers and Line Fishermen . . . .29 
IV. Summary ........ 30 
Table A. — Summary of Fish taken by the * Garland ' on the 
East Coast in 1890 . . . . .32 
Table B. — Analysis of the ' Garland's ' Statistics . . 37 
Table C. — Record of Observations made on Board the 'Garland' 
on the East Coast ..... 40 
Table D. — Buckhaven Haddock and Cod Line Fishing . 141 
Table E. — Showing Fish Landed by Net and Line Boats and 
by Steam Beam-Trawl Boats . . . .142 
Table F. — Showing the Quantities monthly of Large and Small 
Fish landed in the Leith and Aberdeen Districts by 
Beam Trawlers and Line Fishermen in 1890 . . 153 
Table G.— Showing the Monthly Takes of Line and Net Boats 
from Inshore Grounds in the Leith, Anstruther, Mon- 
trose, and Stonehaven Districts . . . .157 
Table H. -Showing the Quantities of Fish captured by Line 
Fishermen in the Territorial Waters, with the average 
per 'shot' in 1889 and 1890 . . .175 
