136 Part til. — Ticenty-seventh Annual Report 



to 8,384,656 cwts., or an avera£;e per annum of 419,233 cwts. In the first 

 ten years the quantity was 3,381,396 cwts., the annual average being 

 338,140 cwts. ; in the second ten years the quantity totalled 5,003,260 cwts., 

 the average per annum being 500,326 cwts. The increase, comparing one 

 period with the other, thus amounted to about 48 per cent. Except during 

 the three years 1906-1908, all the cod are returned as having been taken 

 either by line or by trawl ; in the three years referred to small quantities 

 are included under "nets," that is, gill-nets. In the years 1892-1899 the 

 quantity taken by line was 2,057,712 cwts., the annual average being 

 257,214 cwts. ; in the period 1901-1908 the quantity aggregated 1,211,557 

 cwts., with an average per annum of 151,445 cwts. There was thus an 

 aggregate decrease in the latter period of 846,155 cwts. of the cod taken by 

 line, or about 41 per cent. The quantity of cod taken by trawl in the 

 period 1892-1899 was 830,514 cwts., the average per annum being 103,814 

 cwts. ; in the period 1901-1908 the quantity was 3,021,285 cwts., with an 

 annual average of 377,661 cwts. There was thus an increase of the trawled 

 cod amounting for the period to 2,190,771 cwts., or about 264 per cent. 

 The increase in the quantity caught by trawl has thus been considerably 

 greater than the decrease in the quantity taken by line. 



The aggregate quantity of ling taken in the twenty yeai-s amounted to 

 1,517,779 cwts., an annual average of 75,889 cwts. In the first ten years, 

 1889-1898, the aggregate quantity was 461,294 cwts., the annual average 

 being 46,129 cwts. ; in the ten years 1899-1908 the quantity was 1,056,485 

 cwts., the average per annum being 105,648 cwts. There was thus an 

 increase, comparing one period with another, of 595,191 cwts., or about 129 

 per cent. The quantity taken by line in the eight years 1892-1899 

 amounted to 353,175 cwts., the average per annum being 44,147 cwts.; 

 in the eight years 1901-1908 the quantity was 437,777 cwts. and the 

 average 54,722 cwts. There was thus in the case of ling an actual increase 

 in the quantity taken by line to the amount of about 24 per cent. In 1908 

 the quantity was, indeed, moie than double what it was in 1892, and it 

 was greater than the quantity taken by trawl in the same year. The 

 quantity of trawl-caught ling in the period 1892-1899 amounted to 64,470 

 cwts., the average per annum being 8059 cwts. ; in the eight years 

 1901-1908 the quantity was 461,730 cwts., and the average 57,716 cwts. 

 The increase thus amounted to about 616 per cent. Further, in the period 

 1901-1908 the proportion of line-caught ling to the total was almost 49 

 per cent., whereas with the cod it was only 28 per cent. — about 51 per cent, 

 in the one case and about 72 per cent, in the other being taken by trawl. 



Another fish of the deep water is the torsk or tusk, and the quantity 

 landed in the twenty years aggregated 95,211 cwts., the annual average 

 being 4761 cwts. In the first ten years the total was 19,811 cwts. and the 

 average 1981 cwts. ; in the second ten years the quantity was 75,400 cwts. 

 and the average per annum 7540 cwts., an increase of almost 281 per cent. 

 All the fish are entered as taken by line until 1903 ; from 1903 till 1908 

 the total taken by trawl amounted to 10,217 cwts., with an average per 

 annum of 1703 cwts.; in the same years the quantity taken by line 

 amounted to 43,199 cwts., with an average of 7200 cwts. The proportion 

 of tusk taken by line in these six years was thus about 81 per cent., 19 per 

 cent, being taken by trawl. 



The aggregate quantity of the saithe or coalfish landed in the twenty 

 years amounted to 1,013,576 cwts., the annual average for the period being 

 50,679 cwts. In the ten years 1889-1898 the quantity totalled 356,090 

 cwts., the average being 35,609 cAvts. ; in the ten years 1899-1908 the 

 quantity Avas 657,486 cwts. and the annual average 65,749 cwts. The 

 aggregate increase in the latter period was thus 301,396 cwts., or about 85 

 per cent. The quantity taken by line in the years 1892-1899 amounted to 

 256,639 cwts., with an average of 32,080 cwts. ; in the years 1901-1908 the 



