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these ports ; their equipment and their physiognomy. 

 III. Hull, Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Aberdeen Description of 

 these ports Esbjerg Geestmiinde History of the latter : 

 its organisation Cuxhaven, Ijmuiden. IV. The French, 

 English, and German administrative systems. V. Con- 

 clusion. 



CHAPTER III 

 BOATS AND GEAR . . . . . ; . 224 



I. The three-masted Newfoundlanders ; the Iceland 

 schooners ; herring and tunny boats Small sailing vessels : 

 Itadiers, feluccas, Biscayans, tartanes Foreign sailing 

 vessels Various rigs. II. Steam trawlers Line-fishing 

 vessels Drifters Motor-boats ; pinnaces ; Scotch herring 

 boats, &c. III. Classification of fishing tackle The otter- 

 trawl The beam-trawl, the ox-net, bag-trawl, or gangui ; the 

 seine or scan ; the herring fishery in Norway. IV. Drift- 

 nets; herring-nets Fixed tackle: traps, eel-pots; tunny- 

 nets (madragucs) Baited devices ; the sardine-net of the 

 Atlantic coast Lines ; cod-fishing. V. Conclusion. 



CHAPTER IV 

 THE FISHERMEN . . . . . . .244 



I. The share system Its mechanism Boulogne, and its 

 local complications : Fecamp, II. Fitting-out for the 

 ocean fisheries Modes of payment : by the fifth ; by the 

 task; by the quintal; by shares; by weekly or monthly 

 wage. III. Summary Wages at Boulogne and abroad. 

 IV. Various forms of organisation among ocean-going 

 fishermen ; insurance societies ; Credit Maritime. V. Arbi- 

 tration The maritime inscripts and the State ; the Naval 

 Pensioners' Fund (Caisse des invalides de la marine) ; the 

 Prudential Fund (Caisse de privoyance) ; the law of April 17, 

 1907. 



CHAPTER V 

 THE PROFIT . . ' . . . . . . 262 



I. The revenue of drift-nets, trawls, and lines in the North 

 Sea, the Channel, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean. 



II. The revenue of boats; sailing boats and steamers 



