Aberdeen Fishery Statistics. 



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TABLE III. 



Average Total Catch in Cwts. per Voyage of Aberdeen Trawlers, 



TABLE IIIa. 



Average Total Catch per Voyage of Aberdeen Trawlers (" Smoothed "). 



These last Tables, so far as they go, are on the whole encouraging. 

 The average catch per voyage, over all the fishing- gTOunds taken 

 together, was gi-eater than in any previous year ; and the same is 

 true of the average for the Northern grounds and for the Western 

 grounds. On the whole, taking the means of each successive period 

 of three years (Table IHa.), there is shown a tendency to gradual 

 increase in the Faroe and Iceland catches also. There is a diminution 

 in the average yield of the East Coast voyages, but the extent of this 

 diminution is not very great. From the North Sea as a whole, 

 though the average landing is considerably less than in the four years 

 1905-08, it is yet distinctly above the average of the next four years, 

 1909-12. 



In the following Table (Table IV.), we show the average catch of 

 certain particular fishes, per voyage, on the Northern, East Coast, 

 and West Coast grounds, from 1905 to 1913, 

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