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APPENDIX J: GERMANY 



2. Trawlfishery. The annual statistics for Geestemiinde and Bremerhaven do not 

 distinguish the fish landed by sailing vessels and that landed by steamers; nor is the 

 total number of boats mentioned, nor the number of the voyages. These statistics cannot 

 be used, therefore, to ascertain the quantity and value of the fish landed per boat. 



For Geestemiinde, Hen kin g was able to utilize the material collected and partially 

 worked out by Harbourmaster Du ge concerning this point, for his work on "Die Befischung 

 der Nordsee durch deutsche Fischdampfer" (7); he calculated for a series of years (1893 — 97) 

 and for each month, the quantities taken per day of the most important species. The data 

 used for these calculations are not yet published and are therefore not available for 

 the present summary. The following list is taken from Henking's work and shows 

 the average catch per day (of voyages) for the Geestemiinde steamers, for the above-mentioned 



years 1893—97: 



Number of voyages 

 forming the basis of 

 Year the calculation 



1893 1093 



1894 1345 



1895 1362 



1896 1504 



1897 1251 



Average catch per day 



of the voyages in 



kilograms 



989 

 1126 

 1113 



907 

 821 



Henking also gives a table showing the average catch per day of the most impor- 

 tant species landed by the German steamers at the Geestemiinde fishmarket during 1893^97, 

 arranged according to fishing-grounds and for summer and winter. In this table, the figures 

 for the years 1893 — 97 are taken together; it shows the differences beween the different 

 fishing banks chosen by Henking, as well as the difference between the catches in summer 

 and winter, but does not show the actual differences between the catches for different years. 



The earlier statistics of the Altena auctions give, indeed, the number of the vessels 

 landing fish, and distinguish for each month, the number of sailing vessels ("Ewer") from 

 the number of steamers, which have landed their fish in Altona; as however, the quantities 

 are all taken together, it cannot be ascertained exactly what quantities should be ascribed 

 to the steamers and what to the sailing-vessels. Since 1900 however, Altona has published 

 a special table, showing the quantities brought by the sailing vessels and another showing 

 those landed by the steamers. The number of vessels, over which the total quantities might 

 be destributed, is not stated however, but only the number of the voyages made by these 

 vessels. With the aid of these figures, the following Tables XXXIII and XXXIV have 

 been constructed. 



Table XXXIII. Fish landed In Altona from sailing vessels, dnring 1000—1903 



