APPENDIX J: GERMANY 



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1. in Finkenwärder, Hamburg portion, 74 "Ewer" with 222 fishermen 



2. - — Prussian — 5 — — 15 — 



3. - Blankenese 60 — — about 200 — 

 Altogether, there were 139 Ewer and about 437 fishermen. How these numbers have 



increased during the years 1880 — 1888, and later decreased, is shown in the following table: 



The Elbe and Schleswig- Holstein fishing vessels form only a portion, though an 

 important one, of the German fleet of sailing boats fishing in the North Sea beyond the 

 coastal waters. Information regarding the other fisheries does not exist for earlier times; 

 Lind em an in his "Beiträge zur Statistik" begins his history of the fresh fish industry* 

 in the North Sea with 1866, in so far that is, as it does not concern the fishery from the 

 mouth of the Elbe. In that year, the "First German Sea Fisheries Company" was started 

 in Bremen, and this was followed a few months later by the "North German Sea Fisheries 

 Company" in Hamburg. A third company, the "Fisheries Company, Weser" appeared in the 

 beginning of 1867. All these companies, however, were obliged to cease working within a 

 few years: the first serious endeavours on the German coasts, to carry on a modern North 

 Sea fresh-fish industry on a large scale (there were altogether some 30 cutters) thus ended 

 almost quite fruitlessly. This was ascribed to various circumstances : the entire method of 

 fishing was at that time something quite new to the German seamen, the captains of the 

 boats had still much to learn, from their own experience, concerning the best fishing grounds 

 of the North Sea in the various seasons of the year, there was as yet but little market 

 for the fish, the methods of transport to the interior were imperfectly developed, the iced 

 fresh fish was perfectly new to the German people, who had gradually to get accustomed 

 to it and so on. 



From the ruins of these companies, however, arose the beginnings of several 

 enterprises, which did well and gradually extended and developed. Interest in the sea 

 fisheries was stimulated in ever widening circles of the interior (also by the foundation of 



' The numbers for 1880—1888 are ft-om Lindemann, (3) p. 55—56. 



' The numbers for 1901—1902 are taken from the "Deutsche Fischerei Almanach" (5) for 1902 and 1903. 

 ' The numbers in brackets mean the numbers of the vessels not "Ewer": thus, 161 (9) = 152 "Ewer" 

 and 9 cutters. 

 ' 1. c. p. 36. 



