Abstract
THE Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 1920 (H.M. Stationery Office, 3s.), as usual, contains much important information connected with the Scottish fisheries. In the introduction the Board refers to the present depressed condition of the industry, which is due, not to dearth of fishes of all kinds, but to industrial and transport troubles and the general unrest, as well as the partial dislocation of foreign trade in cured fishes. It bewails the increasing incursions of foreign trawlers in the Moray Firth, unmindful that the closure of the area beyond the three-mile limit was, as Lord Bryce and others long ago pointed out, the fons et origo of the trouble. The figures of the captures for 1920 show that with 1366 fewer boats than in the record year 1912 the quantity landed was 2,261,167 cwt. less. The supposition concerning the “accumulation” of fishes during war-time is conjectural.
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MCINTOSH, W. Scottish Fisheries. Nature 108, 228 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108228a0
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