THE PROFIT 



275 



Per Square Mile 



Channel and /_ L c ^ , L ,. per Annum. 



Atlantic B ttom-fish (trawl) 1-500 tons 



, .. ft} Total taken from the fishing-grounds * 4-628 



p. , v I Fishponds and estuaries 10*920 



Mediterranean C Bottom-fish (trawl) ron 



(Continental -I Total taken from the fishing-grounds... 2340 



Plateau). ( Fishponds and estuaries 5-668 



North Sea / 



(Continental Bottom-fish (trawl) 9'io,, 



Plat ^ (Total taken from the fishing-grounds... 26*000 



These figures, I need hardly say, have only a very 

 roughly approximate value ; but they express differences 

 so considerable that their comparison cannot but be 

 instructive. The yield of the fishponds of Ltimfjord, of 

 the dammed pools, valli, fishponds, &c., can be arrived at 

 with greater ease and exactitude. As this question has 

 been dealt with earlier in the book, I beg the reader to 

 refer to the figures there given. 2 



1 Not in the open sea i.e., above great depths, but vertically 

 above the bottoms which are fished. [TRANS.] 

 3 See Chapter VI., Part I. 



