APPENDIX I 



THE POSITION IN 1920 



Since this book went to press the Ministry of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries and the Fishery Board for Scotland have with great 

 courtesy placed certain figures — as yet unpublished — at the 

 writer's disposal. The drift-net fisheries are still suffering from 

 the loss of the Continental markets for salt herring — and so far 

 as they are concerned the 1920 statistics reflect this fact. But 

 the trawler and hner fleets fish to supply the home market, 

 and in 1920 the fleets were back to full strength and over. It 

 is interesting to compare the pre-war and post-war catches. 



The figures are as follows : 



British Landings ^ 

 (a) Surface Fishes (caught mainly by drifters) 



the following cases : haddock (72 per cent.) "^ ; plaice (34per cent.) ; 

 hake (36 per cent.) ; soles (22 per cent.) ; turbot (78 per cent.). 



On the other hand, hahbut diminished by 4 per cent., cod 

 11 per cent., whiting 12 per cent., lemon soles 32 per cent., 

 ling 28 per cent., and so on. 



But these figures do not by themselves carry us far towards 



1 The Irish figures are omitted. 



■^ The haddock catch increased on all important grounds except Faeroe, 

 where it fell from 7,810 tons landed by English vessels in 1913 to 2,615 tons 

 in 1920 — a fall of 66 per cent. 



