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Let us epitomise, as follows, the gross eariiiugs of the several 

 years : — 



TABLE Q*. 



And the average earnings 'per voyage were- 



TABLE II. 



Here we have the important, but already well-known, fact that 

 the average gross earnings per voyage have steadily risen, and were in 

 1916 about half as much again as in 1913. But this short Table does 

 not give full effect to the change in values, for the simple reason that 

 the voyages during 1915 and 1916 were on the average very much 

 shorter voyages than in former years, being largely, or almost wholly, 

 confined to the Near or East Coast Grounds. A single voyage 

 brought in little more money (say 10 per cent, more) in 1915 than 

 in 1913, but a definite number of hours' or days' fishing brought in a 

 great deal more. Accordingly, we show in our next Table (S) the 

 average earnings of the Aberdeen trawling fleet per 100 hours' fish- 

 ing : and we do so for all the principal fishing grounds, and over a 

 considerable series of years. 



[Table. 



