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The following Table, wliicli is similar to one given in our last 

 Report, for 1913, completes the comparison we are now drawing 

 between the British and foreign landings at Aberdeen. 



TABLE E. 



Average Return, per Voyage, in Quantity and Value, of British and 

 Foreign Trawlers fishing from the Port of Aberdeen, 1914. 



The question of the foreign landings comes practically to an end 

 with the beginning of the war in August 1914; and with the same 

 date begin a number of new and interesting questions regarding the 

 quantities landed, the place of fishing, and the prices obtained by 

 our own fishermen. Some of these questions, and especially those 

 dealing with the place of fishing, cannot yet be discussed in detail ; 

 but the other matters, directly connected with our food-supply, are 

 open to discussion and are of interest to us all. 



The Total Landings of Trawled Fish at Aberdeen. 



The total quantities of trawled fish landed at Aberdeen reached a 

 maximum in 1913, and amounted in that year to about 2,200,000 

 cwts. In the year 1914, under the interruptions of the war, the 

 quantity fell to 1,850,000 cwts., in 1915 to 730,000 cwts., or 

 about one-third, and in 191G to 569,000 cwts., or about one-fourth, 

 of the quantity landed in 1913. 



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