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not well possible to compare the statistics of the Rotterdam market with those of other 

 markets which work with fish landed for the first time only. 



(For the products of the shrimp fishing, there exist no regular markets. Either the 

 shrimps are sold privately, or they are sent by the fishermen on their own risk to foreign 

 markets). 



2) Manner in which the statistics are collected. 



a. For the product of the fishery and its value. 



Nearly all the statistics on the products of the Dutch sea-fisheries are market statis- 

 tics, and as a rule they are collected by market officials. In Holland, no fishery-statistics 

 are collected for the sake of statistics only: though there exists an official "Bureau of 

 Statistics", no special care is taken for the fishery-statistics. The figures and tables to be 

 found in the publications of the Bureau of Statistics are mostly reprints from the annual 

 reports of the Board of Sea F^isheries. 



The principal and most reliable fishery-statistics of the Netherlands, as far as the 

 North Sea fishery is concerned , which are annually published by the Board of Sea 

 Fisheries, are: 



1. Statistics of the herring-fishery. 



2. — - - long-line fishery for so far as the product is landed in salted con- 



dition in Vlaardingen. 



3. — - - fish landed in Ymuiden. 



The statistics of 1. and 2. are provided for, since many years, by a firm of shipowners 

 well-acquainted with the march of the fishery as also with the commercial aspects of the 

 article. To forward these statistics to the Dutch Board of Fisheries is considered by the 

 said firm as an honorary task. 



The statistics of 3. (the fish landed in Ymuiden) are collected through the care and 

 under the control of the Director of the Fishery Harbour. He is a government official 

 and the collecting of statistics belongs to his duties. As all the fish landed in Ymuiden 

 practically passes through the auctioneering, the statistics of the market represent statistics 

 of the catches at the same time. The director sends in annually an official report giving 

 the statistics in full, and this Report is printed as an appendix to the annual report of the 

 Sea Fishery Board for the Netherlands (1). 



Since about ten years, the quantities of fish landed daily in the harbours of Helder, 

 Ymuiden, Vlaardingen and Maassluis have been published in the form of monthly tables 

 in the "Mededeehngen over Visscherij". The statistics used for these tables have been 

 collected for the most part by persons at the fish-markets of these places (as market- 

 masters or auctioneers) and an honorary is paid them for that extra trouble. 



b. For the number and size of the fishing vessels. 



The sea-fisheries bill of 1881 prescribes that, by the care of the "Burgemeester" of the 

 commune where fishing vessels are at home, a register shall be kept of these vessels each 

 with its number, mentioning at the same time the name of the vessel and that of its owner. 

 These registers enable the said "Burgormeestcrs" to report annually to the Board of Fisheries on 

 the number of the ships sailing from their harbours for fishery purposes. With the aid 

 of these reports, the Board publishes annually a list of the fishing-vessels of the Nether- 

 lands as an appendix to the Board's report. 



The fishing- vessels for the North Sea form a special division of that list. According 



