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an increase of 17,347J cwts. When the quantities of white fish landed 
])y beam-trawlers and line fishermen respectively are contrasted, it is seen 
that tlie former landed a larger and the latter a less amount than in 1889. 
Last year line fishermen landed on the East Coast 1,051,853| cwts. as 
compared with 1,111,320| in 1889, or 59,467^^ cwts. less than in the 
latter year. Beam-trawlers landed a larger quantity than in 1889. The 
j-i-ures are :— 1889, 227,41 3f cwts. ; 1890, 285,6161 showing an increase 
of 58,202f cwts., or an amount very nearly equal to the decrease of line- 
caught fish. These figures refer to all kinds of fish combined ; but if 
round-fish and flat-fish are considered apart, the result is a little different. 
The quantity of round-fish landed by line fishermen last yeir was 993,180|^ 
cwts. a(:^ainst 1,057,450 cwts. in 1889, a decrease of 64,269|- cwts. ; on 
the other hand they latided a larger proportion of fiat-fish, the amount 
being 53,870| cwts. in 1889 and 58,673 cwts. in 1890, an increase of 
4,802| cwts. Beam-trawlors landed larger quantities of both round-fish 
and fiat-fish, but relatively more fiat-fish. The amounts landed by 
trawlers in 1889 were : — round-fish 166,818 cwts.; flat-fish 60,595f cwts. 
In 1890 tlie amounts were, round-hsli 212,475J .cwts.; flat-fish 73,141 
cwts.; showing an increase of 45,657J cwts. of round fish, and of 12, 545 J 
cwts. of flat-fisii. 
When the quantities landed in tlie southern group of districts (from 
Aberdeen to Berwick, but exclusive of Ab:^rdeen), are compared with the 
quantities landed in the northern group of districts in 1889 and 1890, 
the following results appear. In 1890 line fishermeti landed less round- 
fish in both sections, less flat-fish in the southern section, and more flat- 
fish in the northern section than in 1889. The decrease of line-caught 
round-fish in the southern section amounted to 58,219J cwts., and the 
decrease of flat-fish to 644J cwts. In the northern section (comprising 
the coast from Aberdeen inclusive to Cape Wrath), line fishermen landed 
6,050 cwts. less round-fish, and 5,446f cwts. more flat-fish in 1890 than 
in 1889. Beam-trawlers landed a greater quantity of both round-fish and 
flat-fish in both sections ; the increase in the northern group of districts 
being 30,436^ cwts. of round-fish and 7,388 cwts. of fiat-fish, and in the 
southern group 15,221 cwts. of round-fish and 6^157 ^ of flat-fish. 
2. Statistics Showing the Quantities of Line-Caught Fish obtained 
FROM the Territorial Waters where Trawling is Prohibited. 
The statistics of the monthly quantities of fish captured by line fisher- 
men in the territorial waters of the East Coast from IS^orth Berwick on 
the south to Skateraw, a few miles south of Aberdeen, on the north, are 
given in Tables G and H (pp. 157, 175). The monthly and yearly averages 
per boat for each kind of fish are also given. These waters, as explained 
in previous Reports, were partially closed to beam-trawling by bye-laws 
at various times; but since the Herring Fishery (Scotland) Amendment 
Act came into force, on the 26th July 1889, they have been completely 
closed to this mode of fishing. 
The total quantity of fish caught in each of the three years, 1888, 1889, 
and 1890, in the territorial waters along the stretch of coast referred to 
are given in Table H (p. 175). These statistics show that, while there 
has been a decrease in the gross quantity of fish captured in the territorial 
waters in 1890 compared with the two preceding years, there has been an 
increased average catch of the boats fishing. There were fewer ])oats 
fishing in 1890 than iti 1889 or 1888. The quantity of fish obtained in 
the territorial waters in 1889 was 129,965 cwts., as the result of 42,898 
'shots' of the fishing boats. In 1890 the quantity was 107,229 cwts., 
