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twenty years the development of the sea 

 fisheries of Germany has been constant, 

 the possibilities of its future extension are 

 very much greater. After the war the 

 great population of Germany will look to 

 the sea for improving its food supply. 

 Price will be an important consideration, 

 for although fish is one of the best foods 

 in use it is also one of the cheapest. 



Great care has been given in the past to 

 equipping the docks of Geestemunde. The 

 Prussian Government built the port speci- 

 ally for the use of fishing vessels, and ,at 

 the same time reclaimed 180 acres of land 

 for markets and factories. The result is 

 one of the finest fishing ports on the North 

 Sea. In ten years its landings were 

 doubled. Centres have also been made 

 at Cuxhaven, Bremen, Bremerhaven, and 

 Altona. Still, although the lake and river 

 fisheries of Germany are far in advance of 

 ours, German deep-sea trawling has never 

 kept pace with the demand, and that 

 country annually imported about 3,000,000 

 of herrings from our drifting fishery, in 

 addition to being the best fish customer of 

 Norway and Denmark. Also the Germans 

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