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taken from the southern North Sea as defined above, that is to say, not less than 98 "/o 

 of the whole of the landings from the North Sea. Only 2 '*/o thus falls to the "Northern 

 North Sea" — as understood in German fishery terms, — which embraces chiefly 

 Areas D, E, and F. In Areas Ci, C2, B2, A2 and A4 very little or no plaice 

 fishing is done by German fishermen. 



The German fishery is carried on according to two essentially different methods. 

 I) Fishing from Sailing Trawlers, which is carried on almost exclusively in the coastal areas 

 A3 and B4, and is, moreover, in the months from March to June directed almost exclu- 

 sively towards the capture of plaice, which are brought alive to market; in the remaining 

 months of the year also other bottom fish are taken, but on the whole, the principal occu- 

 pation of these sailing trawlers is plaice fishing. 2) Fishing from Steam Trawlers, at all 

 seasons of the year and over the whole of the district. Only exceptionally, however, 

 and only in summer with small steamers, is plaice fishing carried on as the principal 

 object, this being as a rule a minor intere.st. The annual yields of these two branches 

 of the German fishery in the southern North Sea are almost equally great; during the 

 years 1905/09 about 1,144,000 kg. annual average were taken by the sailing vessels, 

 and about 1,300,000 by the steamers, representing 47% and 53% of the total weight 

 of all the plaice landed. 



The composition of these German plaice landings, based on market measurements 

 from the year 1909 is, divided between steamers and sailing vessels, as follows: 



Table 3. German Market- Measurements, 1909. 

 Composition of the landings for the whole year from the south eastern North Sea. 



Table 3a. Composition of the English annual landings from the whole of the North Sea and Area Bi. 

 Whole of North 



Sea 

 Area B4 



29,000,000 

 4,090,000 



1 12 500000 

 21,656,000 



27 

 31 



25 



