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small vessels from the Zuidersee-ports, experimenting occasionally also with a little cutter 

 built for the purpose, with smacks bought in England etc. For several reasons, mostly 

 in consequence of the particular condition of the commerce in fresh fish in Holland, these 

 enterprises till of late never have been successful. A revival of the trawl-fishery of Holland 

 is of very recent date only: with the opening of the new fishing-harbour of Ymuiden, a 

 new area began for this branch of the Dutch fisheries. Larger ships, part of them steam- 

 ships, are now used for this trade. The Dutch fishing-industry has been extremely slow in 

 adopting steam as propelling force. In 1884, for the first time a steam trawler was used 

 by a Dutch firm; it was a ship built in Germany, bought by a firm from Schiedam. 

 The enterprise was no success: the steamer was rented to a herring-firm of Maassluis a 

 few years later and was resold to Germany afterwards. A new experiment was started 

 with a steamtrawler built in Rotterdam about 1894. This steamer sailed from Helder 

 and remained for several years the only Dutch one. Since 1898, only a regular increase 

 of the fleet of steamtrawlers, sailing from Ymuiden, has taken place; their number was 20 

 in 1899 and 32 at the end of 1903. 



The whole number of ships, at the end of 1903, exercising the trawl-fishery from 

 Dutch ports, may be estimated as follows: 



Steamtrawlers, fishing with the trawl the whole year 32 



Steamers, fishing with the trawl in winter and spring only 12 



Keeled vessels (luggers etc.), fishing with the trawl in winter and spring only .... 118 

 Bumboats (from Scheveningen, Katwijk and Nordwijk) fishing with the trawl in 



winter and spring only 127 



Keeled vessels (cutters) from Ymuiden and Terneusen fishing with the trawl the 



whole year 17 



Small coast-fishing boats (partly keeled vessels) fishing with the trawl the whole year J^ 515 

 Very small coast-fishing vessels (Shrimp-trawlers) -j- 222 



b. Fishes of greatest importance 



1) Herringfishery: 



Herring (Clwpea harengus) 



2) LonglineHshery: 



Cod (Gadus morrhua): salted and fresh (living and dead) 



Ling (Molva vulgaris): — • — ( — - - 



Haddock (Gadus aeglefinusjj — - — ( — - — 



Halibut (Hippoglossus vulgaris): — - — ( — - - 

 Coalfish (Gadus virens) : — • — ( — - - 



Hake (Merluccius vulgaris): dried 

 Whiting (Gadus merlangus): fresh 



Bays (Raja clavata and other species^: fresh 

 Skate (Raja hatis): 



3) Trawlfishery: 



According to the statistics of the Ymuiden market, the fish caught by trawl and landed 

 in Ymuiden belong to the following species. The percentage is that of the value of the 

 different fishes, sold in 1902 and 1903: 



