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fishery closely connected therewith and also the commerce in salted fish, carried on at the 

 southern extremity of the present-day Swedish province of Skaane; an impartial represen- 

 tation of the great importance of this fishery for Germany is given hy Herwig (6). 



Emden has always been and still is the chief port for the German deep-sea herring 

 fishery. Passing over the earlier history of this fishery, we find that this industry was 

 restarted from Emden in 1872, after having ceased for some years. This revival was due 

 to the transference of a Vlaardingen firm, in the possession of a German hy birth, from 



' The number of boats given here, has been taken from the figures published in the annual reports, 

 but those for 1896 onwards, are from data given by Director J. J. van der Laan of Elsfleth in the Mit- 

 teilungen (1). The figures given by Dittmer (8) p. 13, are different. 



^ These are so-called "tons" from packing on land; the "tons" from packing at sea (so called "kantjes") 

 are, where necessary, reduced to tons of landrpacking on the equivalent that 17 "kantjes" = 14 "tons". 



' The numbers in brackets refer to the steamers; thus, 90(5) means 85 sailing vessels and 5 steamers. 



B. Various publications: 

 9. Marcard, G., Darstellung der Preussischen Seefischerei und ihre jetzige Lage. Berlin, 1870. 



10. Mensen, V., Ueber die Befischung der deutschen Küsten. Jahresbericht der Kommission zur wissen- 

 schaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere in Kiel. II. und III. Jahrgang für die Jahre 1872, 

 1873. Berlin, 1875. 



11. Ergebnisse der Beobachtungsstationen an den deutschen Küsten über die physikalischen Eigenschaften 

 der Ostsee und Nordsee, und die Fischerei. Jahrgang 1873 — 1893. Herausgegeben von der Ministerial- 

 Kommission zur Untersuchung der Deutschen Meere in Kiel. 



12. Benecke, B., Dallmer, E., und Max von dem Borne, Handbuch der Fischzucht und Fischerei. 

 Berlin, 1886. 



