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The few German linerfs and the sailing vessels fishing Avith the trawl keep more in 

 the neighbourhood of the coast; their fishing grounds scarcely extend so far as those ot 

 the steamers. According to Henking (7), who describes the grounds frequented by the Ger- 

 man steamers in a preliminary paper, these places lie, for the most part, in the neighbour- 

 hood of the German and Jutland coasts, and the grounds lying to the west of the Great 

 Fisher Bank are relatively little visited by the German fishermen. The large grounds near 

 the English and Scottish coasts are not at all fished by the German trawlers. The parallel 

 of 58° N.L. forms the northern limit of the territory most frequented by these fishermen: 

 to the east, the territory extends into the Skager Kak and Kattegat, between Frederikshavn 

 and Gothenburg. North of 58° N.L., there are only the fishing grounds in the Murray 

 Firth, those in the centre of the North Sea at -t:58°20', 59°15' and 61°10' N. L. and those 

 at Iceland. A chart is given with Hen king's preliminary paper, which shows these fishing- 

 grounds. To the south, the fishing-grounds extend almost to the 54 th. parallel and pass 

 beyond this only so far as the series of islands Terschelling to Wangeroog extend. 



3. The coast fisheries are carried on, not only in the true coastal waters within 

 3 nautical miles from low water along the mainland and islands, but also in the German 

 portion of the Doliart, between the islands and the mainland of East Friesland, in the 

 Jade Bay, and in the lower parts of the Ems, Weser and Elbe. For the upper limits of 

 the coast fisheries region in these rivers, see above p. 37. 



II. Statistics 



a. The period for which they exist 



The first comprehensive survey of the German statistics was that made by H en s en (10). 

 The material refers to the year 1872 and shows the number of fishing vessels and fishermen 

 engaged in the German sea and coast fisheries. «The Results of the observation-stations 

 on the German coasts n published by the «Kommission zur Untersuchung der Deutschen 

 Meere !■ continue the data given by H en s en. They are concerned mostly with the Baltic; 

 as regards the North Sea fisheries, they contain information concerning the plaice-fishery of 

 Ellenbogen and concerning the haddock, cod and oyster fisheries of Heligoland up to 1884. 



According to Dittmer (8), «further» information was published regarding Prussia 

 under the title: «Beiträge zur landwirtschaftlichen Statistik von Preussen für das Jahr 1883.» 



In 1887, by order of the «D. Seefischerei- Verein n (then still the 'Section for coast and 

 Deep-sea Fisheries' of the «D. Fischerei- Verein»), Lindeman worked out the available 

 statistical material of the German sea fisheries, and his work was published in 1888. Of 

 the tables accompanying the publication, the following refer specially to the North Sea 

 fisheries : 



Table 1. Number of the fishermen in 1872. 



— 2. Summary of the fishermen employed in the fishery according to their occu- 



pation, for 1882. 



— 3. Statistics of the Elbe fishery, so far as this belongs to the coast fishery, and 



of the west coast fishery of Schleswig- Holstein for 1883 — 84. 



— 4. Coast fishery in the magistrate's district of Stade for 1883 — 84. 



— 5. — - — - — Aurich for 1883—84. 



— 6. Deep-sea fishery of the west coast of Schleswig- Holstein for 1883 — 84. 



