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The Scottish Herring Fishery in the Inter-War Years, 1919–1939: Ordeal and Retrenchment

Painful readjustment and contraction, in the context of a decline of British leadership in the international economy and the disorganisation of the global trading system, were very much parts of the experience of many industries in Britain in the inter-war period. The difficulties encountered by the Scottish herring fishery during these years arguably were as great as in any British industry. The main continental markets were reduced and disorganised, while competition from a number of other countries was increasing. To make matters worse, the home market was also in serious decline. As a result, production was curtailed, costs rose considerably faster than prices, and the share fishermen and hired hands on what was now an over-sized and ageing herring fleet struggled grimly to survive. A variety of measures were taken to ameliorate the situation, both within the industry and by government and its agencies, but the maladjustment was so deepseated that there could be no real solution to the industry's problems.