APPENDIX J: HOLLAND _ 66 — 



IL Statistics 



General ÔBserv'àtion. 'The statistics of the Dutch Northsea-fisheries .are, for the 

 different branches of that fishery, of unequal exactness, completeness and value. The herring- 

 fishery has always been considered as the "great" fishery, the most important not only of 

 all, but also as the one really worth to care for. Only very recently, this state of 

 affairs has changed and the opening of the harbour of Ymuiden has had a good influence 

 in this regard also. ' . ' . . •. ' 



There exist excellent statistics for the Dutch herring-fishery, rather good ones lor the 

 salted products of the longhne-fisheries and less complete ones for the other branches of 

 Dutch sea-fisheries, for the trawl-fishery especially. The Dutch statistics in general are 

 not fishery-statistics in the true sense of the word, but rather commerce or market-statistics. 

 "[ 1) Period for which the statistics have existed. 



""■'a. Statistics of the Dutch herring-fishery exist since many years. In 1892, the Board 

 of Fisheries for Holland published a statistical table of the herring-fishery centennial period 

 1792— 1892 ^ The numbers of ships sent out by each port and the total catch per annum 

 are given in that table. Moreover, in the annual reports published by the said board since 

 1857, full accounts over the herring-fishery and the herring-trade of the Netherlands have 

 been pubushed every year. 



b. Statistics of the Dutch long-line fishery are not quite so complete. Since many years 

 the Board of Fisheries publishes annually (1) an account of the product of this fishery 

 landed in salted condition in Vlaardiugen and Maassluis ^, as also of the quantities of fresh 

 fish landed in these ports. But as a more important portion of the fresh fish caught 

 by hooks was landed in other ports (in Holder partly till about 1894, in Ymuiden after- 

 wards) and as that part in the market statistics was mixed up with the product of the 

 other fisheries, it is impossible to calculate the exact product of this branch of Dutch 

 fishery. Since 1899 only", we know the quantities of fish caught by long-lines and brought 

 to the Ymuiden market in fresh condition. 



c. For the Dutch trawl-fishery, the statistics are more incomplete still. The product 

 of the Dutch North Sea trawl-fishery is brought to different Dutch markets, of which the, 

 principal are: 



1. The market of Helder. Statistics of this market exist since 1865. 

 ^;2. ; — - Ymuiden. — . _ _ _ _ 1896. ,^ 



'"b. ' — - Scheveningen, Katwijk and Noordwijk, for trawl fish caught in thé 



', ■ '/months ' January— April. These markets existed already in 1870. A fourth one 

 of the same kind was that of Zandvoort, a fifth that of Egmond, but theise have, 

 lost all their importance since many years already. 

 '4. The market of Rotterdam. Statistics exist since 1878. This market sells fresh fish 

 landed there for the first time by Dutch fishermen, but also fish bought on other 

 markets (even foreign markets) and sent to Rotterdam to be resold. Whence it is 



, ' Eor the. period 1750 — 1794, Beaujoa (2) gives an account of the number of ships that saUed from 

 Dutch harbours for the Grand or Cured Herring Fishery. He. does not give, the. number of lasts or tons 

 of herring caught in these years, however. 

 * Since 1881 in Vlaardingen only. 

 ■'More exactly, since 1908. In the years 1899 — 1902, a part of that ' product was sold in a private' 

 auction, of which no statistics are available. s 



