88 THE COD 



Analysis of the Britisli Catch ^ 



The following ports landed over 1,000 tons of cod : 



Tons Tons. 



North Shields . . 5,165 London . . . 7,861 



Hartlepool . . . 2,002 Milford . .1,170 



Hull .... 31,198 Fleetwood . . 4,476 

 Grimsby . . . 73,901 



Total 7 ports : 119,373 tons. 



Other steam- trawler ports landed as follows : 



Tons, Tons. 



Blvth . . . 897 Scarborough . . 884 



Sunderland , . . 380 Boston ' . . . 941 



Liverpool . . . 608 Lowestoft . . 613 



Total 4.328 tons. 



All other ports gave 9,635 tons 



Tons. 



In Scotland steam trawlers landed . . 47,652 



„ „ liners „ . . 2,839 



50,491 



Out of 66,672 tons landed. 



The main British cod-fishery therefore depended on steamers, 

 and the fish landed in England came from the following banks, 

 chiefly : 



Tons, Per cent, of Catch. 

 Iceland .... 53.266 41-29 



North Sea . . . . 43.386 33-63 



Taeroe .... 17,393 13-83 



West of Scotland . . 8,046 6-24 



Distribution of Cod in the North Sea, 1913 



EngHsh vessels, so far as their grounds have been distin- 

 guished, in 1913 caught 21,671 tons of cod to the southward, 

 and 15,891 tons north of the Tees-Skaw line in the North Sea. 

 The area south-east, east, and north-east of the Dogger, from 

 the Skagerrak southwards and westwards through the ' east 

 mud ' to the Outer Silver Pits between the 20 and 30-fathom 

 lines, is the most prolific — as it is the largest and the most 

 heavily fished (9,700 tons). Then comes the Dogger with 

 5,000 tons and the B 2 area (also between 10 and 20 fathoms) 

 between the Dogger and the Enghsh coast, which produces 

 about 4,000 tons of cod — mostly small cod. 



In the northern waters nearly 7,000 tons — which wore mostly 

 large cod — were caught in the Dl area — the 10,000 square miles 

 between the 30 and 40-fathom lines from the Long Forties 

 southwards ; 3,000 tons in the central deeps between 40 and 



