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cumstances have changed in many ways. The average length of 

 voyage is no longer the same ; the amount of fishing from some of 

 the regions is now very small indeed ; and in some cases it is only a 

 small part of the entire " region " that has of late been open to fish- 

 ing. Bat such as it is, the Table points to a number of not unim- 

 portant facts, and, for instance, to such as the following: — 



1. The catch per voyage from the East Coast Grounds has kept 

 remarkably steady. 



2. On the Northern Grounds the catch per voyage has tended to 

 increase, and is larger in 1916 than in any previous year. This we 

 shall find (from Table M*) to be mainly due to a great catch of 

 haddocks, which fish, both large and small, were landed in unusual 

 quantities. 



3. The mean catch per voyage, over all, is much reduced in 

 1915-16, owing in the main to the small number of landings from 

 Iceland. For the Iceland shots are by a long way the largest of all, 

 and in their absence the general average is reduced accordingly. 



The Catch per Voyage of Certain Fishes. 



In amplification of the above Table, we show, but only for the 

 Northern and East Coast Grounds, the average catch per voyage of 

 certain particular fish (Table M*). 



TABLE M*. 



Average Catch of Certain Fish, in Cwts., per Voyage, 1908-16. 

 Northern Grounds. 



