34 MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN VOL. XIV, 



business and seek a harvest often many hundreds of miles from 

 home. The Danes have been content to work on narrower lines, 

 to devote their energies to the thorough exploitation of their home 

 waters, within at most a hundred miles from port. In this, as 

 judged by their success and the wonderful progress of Esbjerg — the 

 Chicago of Denmark, as they love to call it — they appear to have 

 had their reward. Already great freezing works, cold storage 

 installations, and canneries are springing up, with miles of new 

 docks and quays, where mud flat and sand dune existed not six 

 years ago. This it is that encourages me to press for development 

 or at least for extensive experiment on lines which take due note 

 of methods and apparatus that have been found so eminently 

 successful under related conditions in Denmark. 



The success of the Danes in the use of the snurrevaad and 

 motor-cutter has not been lost upon the Norwegians whom I found 

 paying great attention to them in 1920, with a view to their adop- 

 tion on those parts of the Norwegian coast suitable for their 

 employment. 



The general dimensions of a modern motor-cutter as employed 

 at Esbjerg are as follows : — 



Length of deck (overalllength) ... 14*4 metres. 

 Length on the water-line ... ... i2'6 ,, 



Greatest beam ... ... ... 4*2 ,, 



Height forward ... ... ... 30 ,, 



Do. amidships ... ... ... 2*2 ,, 



Do. aft ... ... ... ... 2 '9 ,, 



The gross register tonnage varies from 16—28 tons. These 

 boats, termed " Haj " ("shark," Danish), are engined with motors 

 from 30 to 40 h.p., the average being 35 — 40 h.p. The power 

 installed is generally calculated to give a speed of 6 to 8 knots 

 with a consumption of 1 50 to 175 kilogrammes of oil per day. 

 The motors most favoured are the "Alfa" of Frederikshavn, 

 the " Tuxham " and the " Neptune " of Kopenhagen ; the " Avance " 

 and "Bolinder" of Stockholm. A crew of four is sufficient to 

 man and work this handy craft ; one of the crew works the 

 engine, but does not by any means devote the whole of his time 

 to it. 



The snurrevaad in itself is nothing but a large seine with long 

 wings and hauling ropes. But in its application to operations in 

 water from 10 to 25 fathoms and even more, the methods employed 



