46 THE UNAPPRECIATED FISHER FOLK. 
boats fishing on “ their own hook,” that is boats unconnected 
with any of the fleets, are added, together with numerous 
Dutch and other foreign fishing ships, it will be obvious 
that the German Ocean is a wonderful arena of fishery 
work. 
Having gone over the round of labour incidental to 
trawling, we shall now proceed on board a cod-man, in 
order to see how it fares with the line-fishers, who contri- 
bute a large proportion of the prime fish which are so much 
prized for table use. 
