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Remarks on Trawling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

M'Intosh
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Fully ten years having elapsed since the Report on Trawling on the eastern shores was presented to the Trawling Commission (composed of the late Earl of Dalhousie, chairman; Right Hon. Edward Marjoribanks, M.P., now Lord Tweedmouth; Prof. Huxley; Mr. W. S. Caine, M.P.; and Mr., now Sir, T. F. Brady), it appears to be desirable to review the statements contained therein in the light of the information which the impetus given by the Commission has produced. Moreover this examination of results is all the more nececssary, since last year another important body—viz. the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Fisheries, presided over by Mr. Majoribanks, M.P.—issued a new blue-book containing the finding of the Committee, and a mass of evidence.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , February 1895 , pp. 307 - 334
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1895

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page 307 note * I have to acknowledge, in the preparation of the “Remarks,” the courtesy of Mr. Esslemont, Chairman of the Board; of Dr. Fulton; of Mr. W. C. Robertson, the secretary; of Mr. Couper, Fishery Officer, Aberdeen; of Messrs. Joseph Johnston and Sous, Montrose; of Mr. Scott, of the General Steam Fishing Company, Granton; and of the owners and captains of the various vessels, who invariably exerted themselves to furnish information. It was especially interesting to find some of the captains of the General Steam Fishing Company's ships, with whom I had worked in 1884, still at their posts.

page 308 note * Prof. Ray Lankester, Sea Fisheries, Chicago Exhibition, 1893, p. 64.

page 310 note * A Brief Sketch of the Scottish Fisheries, 1882–92, p. 6.

page 312 note * Report, Royal Commission on Trawling, p. 361.

page 313 note * Messrs. Joseph Johnston and Sons.

page 314 note * At 11s. per ton.

page 315 note * This is much less than the quantity consumed by some of the old paddle-ships in 1884, e.g. about 35 tons a week.

page 316 note * Mr. Lang's.

page 317 note * The presence of a water-closet opposite, in one instance, appears to be objectionable.

page 318 note * Report, Sea Fisheries of the United Kingdom, vol. i, Appendix, p.3.

page 319 note * British Sea Fisheries and Fishing Areas, Scottish Geogr. Mag., Feb. 1894, p. 73.

page 322 note * “Ocean Bride”—Mr. Drummond's.

page 322 note † Vide Report of the Commissioners, pp. 377–380.

page 323 note * The numbers are taken from the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, 1893, p. 396.

page 325 note * The full value of the labours of the Royal Commission of 1883, and especially of the late Lord Dalhousie, in establishing a series of proper statistics for the fisheries of Scotland, cannot be over-estimated.

page 326 note * At Montrose, for instance, the flat-fishes landed by trawlers realised nearly 20s. per cwt., while those caught by line produced only 9s. 11d. per cwt. But turbot alone was sold at £3 6s. 2d. per cwt., so that the trawlers had the advantage in this respect.

page 333 note * An idea of the numbers of these may be given by stating that a trawler brought on board, in two hauls, about ten tons of small haddocks, which were, however, freed. Many were probably killed.

page 333 note † A Brief Sketch of the Scottish Fisheries, 1882–92, p. 6.