Aberdeen Fishery Statistics. 9 



" demersal " or trawl and line-caught fish, and not at all with the 

 great herring fishery. While in icgard to the herring fishery Aberdeen 

 is far outstripped by a great number of stations, both English and 

 Scotch, it is only surpassed by one, namely, Grimsby, in regard to the 

 quantity of its landings of demersal fish. And, as we have already 

 seen, Aberdeen not only outstrips in this respect all other Scottish 

 stations, but actually lan.ds close on three times as much trawl and 

 line-caught fish as all the rest of Scotland put together. 



TABLE G. 



Total Quantity of Demersal Fish landed at the Six Principal English Ports ; 

 showing also the Percentage Proportion relatively to the Catch at 

 Aberdeen. 



The annexed Table (Table G), shows us the following, among 

 other interesting facts. In the first place, while Aberdeen shows a 

 steady increase in the landings of fish throughout the period, this is 

 not the case with any of the English ports. In only one of the latter, 

 namely, the comparatively new trawling-centre of North Shields, is 

 the catch of 1913 greater than that of any of the earlier years. In 

 all the other cases there is a distinct falling-off, dating usually from 

 about 1907, or, as in the case of Hull, even earlier. 



In 1904 Grimsby surpassed Aberdeen by nearly 80 per cent., and 

 Hull did so by about 18 per cent. ; in 1913, Grimsby was only 31 per 

 cent, ahead of Aberdeen in the quantity of fish landed, while Hull only 

 landed 58 per cent, of Aberdeen's quantity. The great port of Grimsby 

 landed, in 1913, nearly 3,200,000 cwts. of (demersal) fish, a quantity 

 almost precisely identical with that landed at al Scottish ports put 

 together (3,300,000 cwts.). The two English ports next in order after 

 Grimsby are Hull and London, and the quantity landed at Aberdeen 

 was, as nearly as possible, equal to the landings of these two put 

 together. If we exclude Hull, then next after London come Fleetwood, 

 North Shields, and Milford Haven ; and the Aberdeen landings are 

 almost exactly equal to those of these four ports put together. 



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