HC Deb 15 March 1906 vol 153 cc1390-1
MR. LAMONT (Buteshire)

To ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he will lay upon the Table a statement showing the number of hundredweights of herrings landed in the Clyde districts collectively, and in Campbeltown, Inveraray, Rothesay, Greenock, and Ballantrae in-dividally, during the years 1889–1905, both inclusive.

Year Campbeltown Inveraray. Rothesay. Greenock. Ballantrae. Total.
cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts.
1889 118,912 91,817 29,011 6,440 36,281 282,515
1890 147,987 117,775 34,569 4,151 67,606 372,116
1891 144,641 181,569 36,582 8,333 50,211 421,336
1892 160,153 175,553 11,637 4,105 19,750 371,198
1893 247,975 142,765 15,206 6,422 7,196 419,564
1894 256,712 130,721 7,135 1,889 9,288 405,745
1895 102,942 63,046 8,542 4,297 12,379 191,206
1896 53,341 64,422 8,822 2,375 8,038 136,998
1897 85,028 207,415 12,608 2,496 7,235 314,782
1898 90,624 143,161 8,492 1,188 5,597 249,062
1899 111,644 109,810 13,888 2,135 10,211 247,688
1900 141,950 86,598 7,964 661 19,154 256,327
1901 109,721 102,608 6,417 935 36,926 256,607
1902 133,058 92,181 91,171 6,567 28,130 351,107
1903 104,167 74,193 99,262 1,523 7,853 286,998
1904 45,251 27,414 26,389 950 5,090 105,094
1905 74,060 16,352 6,084 15,591 15,679 127,766

Note.—The returns for Campbeltown include, for years 1890–5, large quantities of herrings captured off Islay and Jura, amounting in 1893 to 186,931 cwts.; 1894 to 177,383 cwts., and 1895 to 42,000 cwts., after which the Islay herring fishing was a complete failure.