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Fishery Board for Scotland. 



TABLE Z. 



A similar Table to the last, showing the Pereeutage Proportions 

 of the several Classes of Haddock caught by Trawl on the East 

 Coast of Scotland. 



TABLE Z*. 



Average Catch of Haddock, in Cwts., per 100 Hours' Trawling, iu 

 Two Areas off the East Coast of Scotland, 1913-1916. 



I have dealt particularly with this subject because the general 

 phenomenon, as shown in particular by the Dutch statistics, has 

 already been employed * as an argument to show that the stock of 

 fish in the North Sea is immensely the better for the diminution of 

 fishing brought about by the war ; that as a result of this enforced 

 protection " an enormous abundance of haddocks exists in the North 

 Sea " ; and that accordingly, " when all allowances are made," the 

 " outlook for our fishing (if the war end soon) is roseate." 



None of these conclusions, so far as I can see, are at present 

 justified or supported by our statistics. 



* Of. Fish Trades Gazette, March 31, 1917, p. 59. 



