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after capture. When one considers that 

 on this sea are cities like London, Ant- 

 werp, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, 

 Christiania, besides many other cities with 

 a population of above 100,000, one realizes 

 the possibilities of the full exploitation of 

 these fisheries. The fishing grounds of 

 British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and New- 

 foundland are perhaps just as fertile, but 

 the incomparable disadvantage of those 

 grounds is the absence of the masses of 

 people within reasonable reach of the 

 product. The North Sea has this advan- 

 tage in a greater degree than any other 

 sea. It has a market ready to hand for 

 the product of its prolific fishing grounds. 



In relation to its fisheries the North Sea 

 naturally includes the Baltic arm and the 

 surrounding waters as far as the Faroe 

 Islands and Iceland, with a boundary line 

 drawn from Iceland to the North Cape of 

 Norway. This area will include the chief 

 fishing grounds, the Dogger Bank, the 

 Icelandic and Faroe grounds, the famous 

 Lofoten cod fishery, as well as all the banks 

 of lesser importance. 



Between the British Isles and Greenland 



