§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary for Scotland if he will state the quantity of line-caught fish and trawl-caught fish, respectively, landed 313 in Scotland for each year during the the last ten years, distinguishing line-caught fish secured by steam liners from line-caught fish secured by sailing boats.
| Line-caught Fish. | Trawl-caught Fish. | |
| Cwts. | Cwts. | |
| 1898 | 1,050,000 | 783,000 |
| 1899 | 939,000 | 983,000 |
| 1900 | 757,000 | 1,077,000 |
| 1901 | 696,000 | 1,328,000 |
| 1902 | 608,700 | 1,467,000 |
| 1903 | 602,600 | 1,566,000 |
| 1904 | 753,700 | 1,705,600 |
| 1905 | 735,654 | 1,745,431 |
| 1906 | 688,057 | 1,870,517 |
| 1907 | 614,869 | 2,079,701 |
§ The catches of steam liners and sailing liners were not recorded separately previous to 1906. In 1906, 180,119 cwts. were landed by steam liners and 507,938 cwts. by sail liners. In 1907 the figures were 177,328 cwts. and 437,541 cwts., respectively.