AND THE FISH THEREOF. 



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Hungarian Fisheries. 



18/6-77 



1877-73 



1878-79 



excluding the produce of the tunny fisheries .. 

 Deduct share of Italian craft for the said three years . , 



Total for three years ... 

 Average per annum, 61,818 florins. 1 



Florins. 

 117,946 

 149,412 

 108,369 



375727 

 190,274 



185.453 



We thus arrive at a total yield of 1,832,43s 2 florins, excluding the share 

 of the Italian craft and the produce of the tunny fisheries on the Hungarian- 

 Croatian littoral, which are worked by contractors (see page 65). Some of 

 the fisheries are worked on the system of shares, such as the sardine seine- 

 fisheries (see page 139) and the tunny fisheries (see page 165); in other 

 cases the fishermen are paid fixed wages at the rate of 70 soldi to 1 50 soldi 

 a day. It is, therefore, difficult to arrive at a fixed valuation of the individual 

 gain derived from the yield of the fisheries. 



The value of the material used, the property of native fishermen, repre- 

 sents an amount of 1,650,000 florins; one-third of this amount, say 550,000 fl., 

 would represent the interest on capital, wear and tear of material, &c. This 

 would leave a net yield of, say roughly, 1,280,000 fl., or, according to the 

 lower estimate, 1,130,000 fl., to be divided amongst, say on an average, 

 10,000 men, more or less, engaged in the fisheries, or 1 13-128 fl. per man. 

 The gross yield would be from 168-183 fl. per man. This is, probably, the 

 lowest figure that can be taken. Considering, however, that many of the 

 fishermen do not devote the whole of their time to fishing but have other 

 occupations besides, it is easily explained how the average gain of each 



1 If we take the average for eight years, this sum would be 78,700 fl. 



2 Or, according to the official averages for five and eight years, 1,683,700 fl. 



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