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TABLE I 



1906 1913 1920 



White Sea ... 40-15 44-12 25-45 



Iceland .... 44-22 46-10 58-54 



Faroe .... 31-19 28-19 27-03 



Rockall .... 38-98 39-27 49-53 



North of Scotland . . 25-01 25-76 27-31 



North Sea ... 17-60 14-08 24-94 



English Channel . . 11-36 8-95 25-70 



Irish Sea .... 15-66 11-94 18-79 



Bristol Channel . . 13-15 13-98 26-38 



West of Scotland . . 21-18 28-11 28-17 



West of Ireland. . . 21-48 30-22 25-87 



South of Ireland . . 26-97 23-74 26-63 



Biscay .... 15-98 13-22 18-73 



Portugal and Morocco . 6-55 13-81 19-29 



In England and Wales more fish is landed by trawlers 

 than by all other methods of fishing combined. Trawl- 

 caught fish soles, plaice, turbo t, halibut, cod are 

 rnurh more valuable than fish caught by drift nets, 

 e.g. herring and mackerel. In England and Wales, 

 in 1913, the weight of pelagic fish caught amounted to 

 389,262 tons, and of demersal fish 418,038 tons. Although 

 the quantity of the demersal fish was, therefore, only 

 little larger than of the pelagic fish, its value was 

 7,463,003, compared with 2,531,979, the value of the 

 pelagic fish. 



7 (1457 M) 



