208 SEA FISHERIES 



in the North Sea, the Channel, on the Atlantic conti- 

 nental plateau, and along the Spanish and Portuguese 

 coasts. In March, April, and May they catch the Irish 

 mackerel, which they salt on board, and in June the 

 Channel mackerel. From Newfoundland they bring cod ; 

 from Iceland cod and herring. I say nothing of the coast 

 fisheries, with the line or with nets, nor the shrimp and 

 mussel fisheries. Fecamp fits out its vessels for New- 

 foundland and the Dogger ; it also sends out a number 

 of herring boats. Dieppe is concerned principally in 

 mixed fishery in the Channel ; Saint-Malo, Granville, 

 Saint-Servan, Cancale, and Bayonne send vessels to New- 

 foundland ; Dunkirk, Gravelines, Paimpol, Saint-Brieuc, 

 and Binic to Iceland. Arcachon and Lorient engage in 

 the Newfoundland fishery and in trawling over the entire 

 continental plateau, where their steamers meet those of 

 La Rochelle. In the summer the fishermen of Groix 

 pursue the tunny; in the winter they trawl. All the 

 small fishermen of the Atlantic coast catch sardines, from 

 Camaret to Hendaye, including Douarnenez, Concarneau, 

 Etel, Sables-d'Olonne, and Gujan-Mestras. In the winter 

 they catch flat-fish and other bottom fish. In the 

 Mediterranean Collioure, Port-Vendres, Saint- Laurent de 

 la Salanque, Cette, Marseilles, and Nice engage only in 

 the coast fishery, catching sardine and anchovy. 1 



1 The principal French fishing ports are : Dunkirk, Gravelines, 

 Calais, Boulogne, Treport, Saint-Valery, Dieppe, Fecamp, Etretat, 

 Havre, Honfleur, Trouville, Caen, Port-en-Bessin, Cherbourg, Gran- 

 ville, Cancale, Saint-Malo, Saint-Servan, Saint-Brieuc, Binic, Paim- 

 pol, Douarnenez, Camaret, Audierne, Quimper, Concarneau, Etel, 

 Lorient, Groix, Auray, Belle-Isle, Noirmoutiers, Croisic, Nantes, 

 Sables-cFOlonne, Rochelle, He de Re, He d'Oleron, Rochefort, 

 Marennes, Arcachon, Gujan-Mestras, Bayonne, Port-Vendres, Saint- 

 Laurent de la Salanque, Cette, Les Martigues, Marseilles, Toulon, 

 Antibes, Nice, Ajaccio, Bonifacio. 



